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The above parties have been employed on field work for nine (9) months of the year, and the remaining three months on office duties, bringing up the plots of the year preceding.
Works Executed and in Progress.
Wanganui, Right Bank, 9,744 acres, completed.
Do, do do, 1,820 acres, requires plot.
Do, do do, 12,919 acres, preliminary traverse only.
Do, Left Bank, 695 acres, completed.
Manawatu-Kiwitea Block, 26,000 acres, requires plotting and three months field work to complete pegging.
Manawatu-Fitzherbert Block, 10,500 acres, requires plotting, and three months field work to complete pegging.
Wellington Districts, Ohariu, 6,000 acres, plotted, requires three months field work to finish pegging.
Wellington Districts, Ohariu, 2,500 acres, plotted, requires one month to complete pegging.
Wairarapa-Rangitumau Block, 30,000 acres, preliminary traverses.
Wairarapa, Forty-Mile Bush, 1,040 acres, completed.
East Coast, 31,000 acres, all pegged, requires plot.
Do do, 30,000 acres, preliminary traverses.
Total, 162,218 acres.
In addition to the above works the pegging off of a large area of arrears of survey in the Wanganui, Parae-Karetu, Wellington, and East Coast Districts has been executed. As these areas have been returned in former Reports as surveyed, but incomplete in pegging, &c., no return is now made of them.
In the Survey Office three hundred and eighty-four (384) Crown grants for 95,026 acres have been prepared. The usual office duties, compilations of plans, lithography, &c., have been executed: a lithograph plan of the Wellington Country Districts, on a scale of 80 chains to the inch, is now in the hands of the lithographer.
With reference to future requirements of the Survey Department I have to state that probably for two years to come the following staff will be required to be employed in the several districts, in order to complete the necessary pegging of arrears of survey to the present date:—
| District | Staff Required |
|---|---|
| Wanganui | 1 district surveyor. |
| 1 assistant do. | |
| Rangitikei | 1 district surveyor. |
| Manawatu | 1 district surveyor. |
| 2 assistant surveyors. | |
| Wellington | 1 district surveyor. |
| 1 assistant do. | |
| Wairarapa | 1 district surveyor. |
| 1 assistant do. | |
| East Coast | 1 district surveyor. |
| 1 assistant do. |
The above does not provide for the exigencies of new surveys. I am, therefore, of opinion that the present staff cannot be reduced during the above-mentioned period of two years.
I have, &c.,
HENRY JACKSON,
Chief Surveyor.
J. G. Holdsworth, Esq.,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington.
Provincial Engineer’s Annual Report
Provincial Engineer’s Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 1876.
Sir,—
I have the honor to forward for your information a report upon the various Public Works in progress or undertaken by the Province since the 31st March, 1875.
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