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kinute by Mr. Clesenti of 17th. June, 1903.3289
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The work for a surveyor to do is (a) to pick up and take per- manent the marks of Mr. Newland's survey. A sum has been voted for this in the current year's estimates but is not now likely to be used. This
work is urgent and will take (1 believe) the best part of a year if
only one surveyor is employed. I have hunted for Mr. Newland's marks
both with plans and with a theodolite, but rarely find one. It seems
likely that the greater part of Mr. Newland's work will have to be done
over again in this connection: (b) to survey 137 lots sold by auction
and mark then on the cadastrai pians and put up boundary stones. This
work is also urgent and will take several months: (c) to survey and
mark permanently the boundaries of the oyster beds in Deep Bay. This
will take at least one month: (1) to survey pineapple lots and ascer-
tain their area in order that the 10 year licence fees may be correctly
‣ assessed, instead of being arrived at by guess work as at present: (e)
to survey the forestry areas allotted over 350 villages and mark the
boundaries in some permanent manner, in order that village rights day
be correctly defined; (f) to revise district by district the cadastrai
sheets of Mr. Newland's survey and keep them up to date: This is an
urgent matter as the plots are constantly shifting by slight and at the
time insignificant alterations, with the result, however, that the maps
especially the 16" scale maps become year by year more difficult to
read on the ground: (g) to make a survey of upwards of 150 villages
which were omitted from Mr. Newland's 16" maps. fhis is an urgent
matter the necessity of which was urged on the Government both by the
late
Land Officer, Mr. Bruce Shepheri, and by the Crown Solicitor. This survey will take the larger part of a year. All the big and important villages - Taipo, Faniing, Stöngshui, San Tın, kan fin, Yun Long, Penz- shan, etc., are among the unsurveyed villages: (h) to survey various small areas which have been omitted from the cadastral raps by over- sight. This is a small matter, but should not be lost sight of.
While all this work is being done, other work will be found to
be