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soon as possible and pushed on as fast as staff and funds will permit. This 

 work will include the preparation of planting plans for areas to be afforested. 



16. WORKING PLAN MAPS. The preparation of working plans depends 

 on the existence of accurate topographical maps on a scale of not less than 

 2 inches to a mile. Of these there are few in existence, although the survey 

 of boundaries has made very fair progress. It has been ascertained that the 

 Land Survey Department is not in a position to carry out the programme of 

 survey work proposed below. This is unfortunate, since that Department is 

 the agency which could best undertake the topographical survey of the forests, 

 as part of the general survey of the country. If it is not in a position to 

 undertake the programme, the work will have to be undertaken by the Forest 

 Department on lines laid down by the Land Survey Department. The maps 

 required are topographical maps showing forest boundaries and all important 

 interior details, such as roads and paths, grass-lands, swamps, ridges, streams 

 and other natural features. Form lines should be drawn in, altitudes being 

 entered where possible : the altitudes of many cadastral points have already 

 been determined, and interpolation can be carried out with the aid of an 

 aneroid. Following the existing practice, the drawing and printing of the 

 maps could best be undertaken by the Topographical Branch of the Geo- 

 graphical Section of the War Office. 



The following statement gives particulars of available maps, prepared 

 chiefly from surveys by the Forest Surveyor, which are, so far as they go, 

 suitable for working plans purposes, though some of them are as yet incom- 

 plete : 



AVAILABLE MAPS SUITABLE FOR WORKING PLANS PURPOSES. 



There are also various plantation maps available. 



17. PROGRAMME OF WORK. The programme below, prepared in con- 

 sultation with the Conservator of Forests, gives particulars of areas for which 

 working plans are most urgently required, and of surveys to be carried out 

 for the preparation of these working plans. The programme is estimated to 



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