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(b.) The large claims of No. 4 District consist for the greater part of fore- shore and patches of broken uncultivated land. The boundaries of these claims in the original survey were so vaguely given, that they could not be pointed out again exactly for the resurvey, even by the claimants themselves. Hence a margin of difference must always be allowed, even where the face of the ground has not undergone alteration. Where it has undergone such alteration, this margin, apart from the alteration, must be even greater.
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(c.) The areas of all foreshore claims, as surveyed on the new maps, differ from the areas originally submitted, owing to the fact that one boundary is usually given as high water mark, the delineation of which is left entirely to the discretion of the Surveyor.
(d.) The larger scale of the second survey allows more detail to be shown; hence a margin of difference must be allowed in the smaller cultivated lots even where the boundaries are unchanged. (e.) I might add that in all big Cadastral Surveys, it is found impossible to make a resurvey tally exactly with the original, even if done on the same scale. The results of the system, which is the only practicable one for large settlement operations, must not be com pared with an architect's plan of a building; and the differences between two surveys when put in figure form in the area column, lot for lot, though they seem alarming to the non-professional eye, have regularly to be discounted as absolutely unavoidable."
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Statement giving Cadastral Survey Figures for the New Territory including Islands.
Number
Number
of Maps on
16" Scale.
Number
of Maps on
32" Scale.
Total
Number of
Maps
surveyed.
Number of
Acres
surveyed ou 16' Scale.
Number of
Acres
surveyed on 32" Scale.
Total Number
of Acres
surveyed.
Number of
Holdings demarcated.
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