The reef has also been claimed by Tonga since 1972, and Tonga's Surveyor General, Tevita Malolo, told Radio New Zealand that Fiji had never contested Tonga's claim until now.

Bekker, now with General Motors Defense Research Laboratories ( GMDRL ) at Santa Barbara, California, was completing a study for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a small, unmanned lunar roving vehicle for the Surveyor Program.

Former Ohio Governor and U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin who commissioned the Harris Line survey.

U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin, who was in charge of the survey, was a former Ohio governor.

For unknown reasons, Surveyor General Tiffin ordered the two surveys to close on the Northwest Ordinance ( Fulton ) line, rather than Harris ' line, perhaps lending implicit support to Michigan's claims over Ohio's.

Together with the clergy and Receiver General and Chapter Clerk, various lay officers constitute the college, including the Organist and Master of the Choristers, the Registrar, the Auditor, the Legal Secretary, the Surveyor of the Fabric, the Head Master of the Choir School, the Keeper of the Muniments and the Clerk of the Works, as well as 12 lay vicars, 10 choristers and the High Steward and High Bailiff.

The establishment of a Royal Observatory was proposed in 1674 by Sir Jonas Moore who, in his role as Surveyor General at the Ordnance Office, persuaded King Charles II that the Observatory might be built with Flamsteed employed in it.

Surveyor General for Rebuilding the Cathedral Church of St. Paul and the Parochial

Surveyor General till April 26.

Surveyor General & Sub Commissioner for Repairs to Westminster Abbey by Act of Parlia -

In 1870, Henry D. Washburn, having been appointed Surveyor General of Montana in 1869, organized the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in Helena to explore the regions that would become Yellowstone National Park.

* Henry D. Washburn, Surveyor General, Montana Territory and commander of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone in 1870

The ranges were named in 1836 by Surveyor General of New South Wales Sir Thomas Mitchell after the Grampian Mountains in his native Scotland, but are also known by the name Gariwerd, from one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages, either the Jardwadjali or Djab Wurrung language.

Other defunct statewide elected offices that no longer exist include the Comptroller ( which became Controller in 1862 ), the Surveyor General ( 1849 – 1926 ), and the Clerk of the Supreme Court.

The responsibility for topographic mapping and aerial photography lies with the Surveyor General of Pakistan.

SGP is a civil organization which, for security reasons, is headed by a Surveyor General and works under the strict control of Army General Headquarters ( GHQ ).

Innes-Wilson, a Royal Engineers officer who joined the Survey of India which mapped the subcontinent, was the first Surveyor General of Pakistan.

Organisationally, the SOP is overseen by the Surveyor General ( SG ) who is a direct military appointee and a senior uniformed officer.

The Surveyor General approved the United States survey of Mecosta County on February 22, 1839, and the State Legislature established the county boundaries on April 1, 1840.

In 1637 the Surveyor General of Customs issued a report compiled from accounts of customs due from each port and their " subsidiary creeks ".

In 1806 Nash was appointed architect to the Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases.

In the 1880s, the United States Surveyor General for California, Theodore Wagner, built an estate which he named Orinda Park.

In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold's competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site.

Testimony in the adjudication of the grant before the Surveyor General confirmed that the town was built in 1822 or 1823 in the place already known by the name Casa Colorado ( Town of Casa Colorado Grant: 12 ).

However, these reports are disputed by Leonard D. Jaffe, who was Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that an unnamed member of his staff reported that a " breach of sterile procedure " took place at just the right time to produce a false positive result.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 10 kg of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

* County Surveyor: Gary D. Hahn ( Republican )

* Surveyor W. D. Twichell, whose work encompassed 165 of the 254 Texas counties, retired to San Angelo in 1934, where he lived until his death in 1959.

In 1803, he was hired as Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the United States, and spent much of the next fourteen years working on projects in Washington, D. C. Latrobe spent the later years of his life in New Orleans, working on a waterworks project, and died there in 1820 from yellow fever.

He resigned his position as Surveyor of the Port of New York to become a member of the New York State Assembly ( New York Co., 11th D .) in 1873, and was elected Speaker, one of the very few times a first-term member was chosen.

The original survey party that arrived in 1840 on the Cuba comprised Captain William Mein Smith ( Surveyor General ) and Messrs. R. D. Hanson, W. Carrington, R. Park, R. Stokes, and K. Bethune, all well known personalities in the early history of Wellington.

— Colonial American Astronomical Surveyor, Patriot, Cartographer, Legislator, Scientific Instrument Maker, Boundary Commissioner & Professor of Mathematics, presented at the FIG XXII International Congress, Washington, D. C., April 19 – 26, 2002, in website of International Federation of Surveyors, FIG Last accessed February 13, 2009.

* County Surveyor: Norman J. Quaine, Jr.

The peak was named in English by County Surveyor George J. Roskruge for his sister, who was the wife of William F. Kitt.

In 1913, it was applied to a railway siding on the line between Wongan Hills and Mullewa, at the suggestion of District Surveyor J P Camm.

A few months later the petitioners from Smaldeel received a letter from the Secretary of Legislative Council dated 18 September 1906, stating that the case of proclaiming a town will be investigated by a commission of enquiry consisting of Surveyor General, Mr. J. W. H.

The first European explorer into the area was the Surveyor General J. S. Roe, who travelled through the region in 1836 but was not impressed by its dryness and the low rainfall.

In 1981, writer Ian McKiggan also found further evidence of an 1841 French shipwreck in the area in the journal of Government Surveyor C. J.

First county officers were: Sheriff Lewis Wynn, Superior Court Clerk Clark Blandford, Inferior Court Clerk Josiah W. Batchelder, Surveyor Absalom Beddell, Coroner F. A. B.

James urged President Grant to allow him to succeed Alonzo B. Cornell as Surveyor of the Port.

The first marker, a red cedar stake, was placed on the site on June 4, 1851, by John B. Preston, the first Surveyor General of the Oregon Territory.

President Hayes decided upon the removal of Chester A. Arthur, the Collector, General George H. Sharpe, the Surveyor, and A. B.

On 4 February 1848, Williams was appointed the " Geological Surveyor of the Geological Survey of India " but he fell off his elephant and, soon after, died with his assistant, a Mr F. B. Jones, of ' jungle fever ' on 15th Nov 1848, after which John McClelland took over as the " Officiating Surveyor " until his retirement on 5 March 1851.

In 1919, Col. Robert B. Marshall, Chief Surveyor for the U. S. Geological Survey, purposed a plan for the federal government to build a series of diversion dams, and two grand canals along the sides of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, consequently irrigating California's Central Valley.