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IN a report which has recently been published, the Surveyor-General of New Zealand describes the work of his department during the year 1909–10. A large area of country has been surveyed, but the urgency for pushing forward the topographical and settlement surveys, and the survey of native lands, leaves little opportunity for dealing with the major triangulation of the country. It is satisfactory, however, to see that besides some 320 square miles-of minor triangulation, a commencement of a secondary triangulation has been made, and a base-line some eight miles in length has been measured. There is said to be a pressing need for this form of control, which may “bring into harmony different groups of practically uncontrolled minor work with their different standards of length, &c.” The experience of many other regions goes to show that not only is such control indispensable, but adequate expenditure on it is the best economy, and very soon repays itself.
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The New Zealand Survey . Nature 85, 185 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085185a0
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