received a dressing-down from the Surveyor-General. The men worked hard and efficiently and the whole of the surveying job was completed by August 1869. Personnel Includes some information on those of Goyder's parties who remained or returned to the NT to participate in Charles Todd's Overland Telegraph (OT) Line construction. {| class="wikitable" ! Name || Job/position || Left Port Adelaide || Left Port Darwin || Left Adelaide for OT project || Notes |- |George Sydney Aldridge || Surveyor, Cadet, 2nd Class || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare January 1870 || || |- |James Henry Aldridge || Chainman || Moonta December 1868 || Kohinoor February 1870 || || OT cadet under Knuckey & C. Giles |- |C. Almers || carpenter || || Kohinoor February 1870 || Omeo August 1870 || OT under Knuckey and C. Giles |- |George A. Armstrong || Axeman || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare September 1869 || || |- |Job Austin || Axeman || Moonta December 1868 || Kohinoor February 1870 || Omeo August 1870 || OT labourer under Harvey & Roberts |- |William Barlow || Assistant Photographer || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare September 1869 || || |- |Robert W. Barrow || Axeman || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare September 1869 || || |- |George Bayfield || Axeman || Moonta December 1868 || || || Govt Resident's staff as teamster, OT as teamster.Friend of Deane and engaged to his sister Ny. |- |Robert Beard || In Charge of Horses || Moonta December 1868 || Kohinoor February 1870 || || had been on Finniss's 1864 expedition |- |Tom Bee || Surveyor, Cadet, 1st Class || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare January 1870 || Omeo August 1870 || Born 4 July 1850 in Brompton, England, educated at AEI, worked on OT under McMinn & Musgrave, later postmaster several SA towns, died 21 November 1919 in Millicent, South Australia. |- |David Landel Beetson || Surveyor, Cadet, 2nd Class || Moonta December 1868 || Gulnare January 1870 || || acted as land selection agent, prospected for gold, had (with S. King and C. Schmidt) first private house in Palmerston, insolvent, died in WA. |- |Frederick John Bennett || Wellsinker || Moonta December 1868 || Kohinoor February 1870 || || |- |J. W. O. Bennett || Draftsman || Moonta December 1868 || || || Bennett and William Guy speared by Aborigines 24 or 25 May 1869. Bennett died 28 May, the