In 1982, Tindale wrote to the Surveyor General requesting information about the recording of Aboriginal place names in the Hundred of Baker (SA). In particular, Tindale was interested in confirming whether any records existed that could support Albert Karlowan's claim that he provided surveyors with place names (Karlowan was an important informant for Tindale in the 1930s and early 1940s). This bound volume contains the official response by M Medwell, Secretary of the Geographical Names Board. Medwell's reply contains a wealth of data concerning the history of land surveys and colonial occupation in the Hundred of Barker. It contains the following headings with detailed responses:

1. When was the Hundred of Baker Surveyed?;
   
   
2. What are the names of the surveyors who might have transcribed native place names on their maps?;
   
   
3. 1 page note on original plans forwarded; and
   
   
4. Does any record still exist which indicates that Karlowan (an aboriginal of the Manaka clan of the Jarildekald tribe of Lake Albert was linked with the survey of the Hundred of Baker?
   
   

For further details see Tindale's letter to the Surveyor General, 17 September 1982 (in 'Anthropology Letters 1982, vol.2', AA 338). See also Tindale's maps of the Hundred of Baker, AA 338/24/3-338/24/9.