96 Western Australia — New Geological Surrey Map. 



Western Australia. — Mr. Harry Page Woodward, J.P., 

 F.G.S., F.K.G.S., F.I.Inst., Assoc. Memb. N. of Engl. Inst. Mining 

 and Mech. Eng., formerly Assistant Government Geologist, South 

 Australia, and who for the past eight years has filled the important 

 post of Government Geologist for Western Australia, has resigned 

 the Government Service and joined the staff of Messrs. Bewick, 

 Moreing, and Company, Mining Engineers, of London and Western 

 Australia. Mr. Woodward's services will be available for reporting 

 and advising on all Western Australian properties through Messrs. 

 Bewick, Moreing, and Co. — "Mining World and Engineering 

 Record," January 11th, 1896, p. 57. "The British Australasian 

 and New Zealand Mail" of January 9th, writes as follows: — 

 " When I was in Western Australia in 1891, I had the pleasure of 

 seeing a good deal of Mr. Woodward, and a more efficient public 

 official I never met with. Apart from his professional qualifications 

 he is a man of fine physique, inured to fatigue, and of most 

 agreeable manners. Nobody understands the Colony geologically 

 and otherwise better than he does, and there can hardly be an acre 

 of the settled districts which he has not inspected. The worst of 

 it is Governments cannot, or will not, pay efficient officers at the 

 same rate which private firms are able, and indeed compelled, to 

 offer for first-class services, and as a natural result the tendency 

 is to rob the Civil Service of its brightest ornaments. However, 

 the services of Mr. Woodward will not be lost to the Colony, and 

 their value may be even increased now that with his great abilities 

 he has a free hand. I heartily congratulate Messrs. Bewick, 

 Moreing, and Co. on their latest acquisition." 



New Geological Survey Map. — The Geological Survey has 

 just issued, for the first time, a map printed in colours. This is 

 Sheet 12 of the four-mile to one inch map of England and 

 Wales. It includes the London Basin and great part of the 

 Wealden area. As previously published, coloured by hand, the 

 price of this sheet was 10s. 6d. The price is now 2s. 6d. This will 

 in itself be an advantage to purchasers; and moreover there is 

 another advantage, and it is that colour-printed maps, when carefully 

 prepai'ed, are accurate and uniform ; whereas in hand-coloured maps 

 uniformity in colouring cannot be rigidly maintained, and the 

 colourist may, at times, omit to colour certain outliers and inliers. 

 We understand that Her Majesty's Stationery Office has issued this 

 new map as an experiment, and that if successful the companion 

 sheets of this useful map of England and Wales, will likewise be 

 printed in colours, with a corresponding reduction in price. We 

 should like to see the system of colour-printing adopted with regard 

 to the new series of one-inch maps now in course of publication by 

 the Geological Survey, for the system is almost universally adopted 

 ahroad, and with success. 



