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Historic survey peg preserved by Trevor Johns
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lacks Point Museum, located just outside Reefton, has recently been presented with a surveyors peg, originally cut and placed in 1881. Museum curator Peter Lawn was presented with the peg — which is linked to the early days of the Inangahua — by visiting members
of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors in Reefton recently. Institute chairwoman Jan Coll of Westport said the peg, cut from silver pine, and still bearing the axe marks from when it was first shaped still looked “like it was cut yesterday”. The peg was originally placed in 1881 by the district surveyor for Inangahua, John Ainslie Montgomerie, to mark a section
17km north of Reefton between Boatmans and Larry’s creeks. The peg had been in the possession of the early surveyor’s granddaughter Ainslie Reid, of Napier after being retrieved by her brother John, also a surveyor, some time before 1990. John Ainslie Montgomerie completed hundreds of surveys during his 31 years on
the West Coast, sometime venturing as far away as Culverdon via the Amuri Pass. He died in 1911 from injuries received when his horse bolted in the buggy he was riding in. He is buried in Burkes Creek Cemetery. Mrs Coll said restoration of the surveyor’s peg was funded by the Westland branch of the Institute of Surveyors to help record the early days of historical surveying.
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Blacks Point Museum curator Peter Lawn, second left, takes possession of the historic survey peg from members of the NZ Institute of Surveyors: Duncan McDonald, left, Chris Coll, Jan Coll and Lara Kelly. PICTURE: Trevor Johns
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