Surveyors Urged To Plan As Well

Press, Volume C, Issue 29634, 3 October 1961, Page 20

Surveyors Urged To Plan As Well

(Nsw Zealand Press Awocintion)

TAURANGA, October 2. serves had been purchased Surveyors today tended to an n ‘ regard their profession from difference bcIVgWU UVUI work { j one jj, a financial point of view and two island*.

not from the point of view of the results of their work, the Mayor of Tauranga (Mr D. S. Mitchell) told delegate* at the opening today in Tauranga of toe seventy-third annual conference of toe New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Ito was not satisfied, Mr Mitchell said, that areas added to cities and towns had been surveyed to the maximum, benefit of the people who lived in them. He believed that surveyors should plan as well aa survey. Surveyors who bed worked in the South island in toe early days had, to hi* opinion, done a better job than their eontatnparariee to the North, Island. In -toe 'North Island, areas such aa those surrounding Christchurch, including Bagley Park, bad not been set aside. Tauranga, where aQ ro-

Mr Mitchell sold he wonderod whether in 100, 200. or 300 years people would i look back on today’s surveyors as planner* and say I that they had done a* good i a job. "Whether they do w up to you,” he said. He urged surveyors not to ■ tower their standards but to i raise them. This would give s toe surveyor* toemeeive* a > lot of satisfaction and would i brtofc as well, pleasure to chairman (Mr G. F. Payne, of Wanganui), thanking Mr Mitchell for his address, said he believed , ttat sensitivity to planning was in the minds of all surveyors today. "Generally speaking. I believe surveyors are making • an effort in toe direction—- ■ bat they are up against difI ficultiee Imposed by toe Government and local bodies,” he said.