The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)
Highly specialised Work
Highly specialised Work.
The main functions of the Land Office consist of the acquisition of land required for railway works, the disposal of land no longer required, and the control and development of the huge total area necessarily occupied in the construction of the 3280 miles of open railway track in the Dominion. The work is of a highly specialised character and demands officers qualified in surveying and acquainted with legal work to carry it out. Even the typistes have a formidable task to cope with in the intricacies of technical terms and legal phraseology.
It is impossible in the scope of a short article to go into detail, but it might be of interest to readers to give an outline of the history of any average piece of railway land.