The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]
Lands Office
Lands Office.
District Land And Survey Department. The Lands and Survey Officers for the Auckland district occupy a large portion of the Custom House. The staff is about the strongest in the Colony, numbering over forty. For the year 1896 no fewer than 2,000 mining survey plans were received for record, dealing with an area of 159,000 acres. The total area of the Hauraki Mining District is 1,056,000 acres, while that of Puhipuhi is 200,000 acres.
Mr. Alfred Herbert Vickerman, District Surveyor for the Auckland District, is the youngest son of the late Dr. F. L. Vickerman, of Nelson. He was born at Spring Creek, Marlborough, in 1862, and educated at the Nelson College. After successfully passing the Civil Service examination he was appointed to a cadetship in the Survey Department at Nelson, in 1880. Three years later, on passing the surveyors' examination, he was promoted as assistant draughtsman in the Auckland office, and subsequently went into the field in 1888, as assistant surveyor. Mr. Vickerman was promoted in 1898 to the rank of District Surveyor. Upon the opening up of the King Country he was transferred to the roads branch, under Mr. C. W. Hursthouse, at Te Kuiti, and took charge of that office temporarily until he was transferred to the roads office, Auckland, Mr. Vickerman is of a retiring disposition, but he has merited his position by the faithful discharge of his duties.
Mr. A. B. Wright and Child.
Mr. W. C. Kensington.
Mr. T. M. Taylor.
Mr. E. Bellairs.
Mr. George A. Kallender. Accountant of the Auckland branch of the Crown Lands Department, has been in the service over twenty years. Born in India in 1853, where his father—General Kallender, of the Madras Cavalry—lived, the subject of this notice received his education at private schools in England, and, returning to India, remained in that country for five or six years. He came to New Zealand in 1875, and two years later joined the Civil Services as clerk and draughtsman. Mr. Kallender married in 1879 the daughter of Mr. Vercoe, settler, of Auckland.