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4 men would have to remain some time after the others to complete the levelling and contouring.

2. With reference to the estimate now furnished of $8000

Sur.

ao

the cost of the hrvey without Admiralty and War Office assistance, it is partly based on the estimate of £4000 given in my memorandum of 26/8/90; — that extimate

follows:-

was arrived at as

Trigonometrical work

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227.

1470.

177.

Survey of 1150 acres 500 Yown work at 34 1,720. Survey of 19,600 acres 2500 work at 1/6 Publication of the Plans Levelling & Contouring, Stores, & Contingencies 406. £ 4000.

The total approximate area

for Survey

was taken at 20,750 acres, and the rates for the different kinds of work were taken at about 11⁄2 times the English rates-

No really detailed estimate has however been framed _ It is as stated in memorandum of 26/8/90 impossible to

my

do so without knowing more fully what the Colony is likely to require, and

the local conditions involved_

3. With reference to the rates of pay proposed to be given to the Officer and

men respectively they

wvere Ao

follows:

I. Survey or Working Pay.

1 Officer at 21/- per diem or about £383 per annum, v 1 Sergeant at 8/- : 3 Corporals at 6/6 : 3 2nd. Corporals at 5/6 : 3 Lance Corporals 10 Lappers at 4/6 per diem each:

and

these rates are included in the

estimate of £4000 above, in addition to the pay of the necessary Civilian Labourers, and an approximate sum for stores and contingencies; those expenses being in the original estimate assumed to be chargeable to the Colony

the refusal of the War Office to

any

bear

part of the expense of the survey involved the addition to the above estimate of the following expenses :

II. Regimental Pay & Allowances.

1 Subaltern R. &. Officer - Regimental