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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Enclosure 4 in No. 17. — Memorandum

Enclosure 4 in No. 17.
Memorandum.

Invercargill, 12th May, 1870.
The surveys necessary to be executed before the various Native reserves on the main land and at Stewart's Island can safely be granted are estimated to cost, at the contract rates paid by the Southland Government, about the sums respectively set forth below:—
Eight reserve on the main land£19990
Nine reserves on Stewart's Island25900
£45890
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In addition to which there are five old land claims on Stewart's Island that should be surveyed prior to the reserves that abut on them being defined £70 7 6
£528 16 6
Besides this, there is, owing to a private surveyor for the survey of 2000 acres rented by Kingswill, the sum of £72 1 0
Making in all £600 17 6

C. Heaphy.
G. S. Cooper, Esq.,
Under Secretary Native Department.

This does not include the Bird Islets lying off Stewart's Island, and for which the Admiralty Coast Survey will probably suffice.—C. H.