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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