Survey.

The surveyors to be employed should be paid officers of the Government, and form part of the staff of the Court. Natives interested should do all the work of cutting lines, and otherwise assist as required, of course without receiving any pay. Where competent, a Native should be employed as surveyor, and always some Native, while being educated as a surveyor, might act as an assistant. All surveys should be made on a uniform scale, and, whenever practicable, connected with previously determined fixed lines. Several important advantages would result from employing surveyors paid by Government. They would have esprit de corps and interest in doing their work well. There would be no temptation for fraud in deviating from a boundary-line. I lately heard of a case where deviation was made in a boundary-line after those interested in the adjoining land had left the ground, so as to include land of those parties. A Crown grant was obtained before the error was discovered.