MILITARY MAPPING
Inspection By Australia (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CANBERRA, Sept. 30. Colonel D. MacDonald, the Australian Army Director of military survey, will visit New Zealand next month to inspect facilities for mapping, and to have discussions with his New Zealand counterpart, The Minister for the Army (Dr. A. J. Forbes), announced yesterday. Dr. Forbes said it would be the first such liaison visit to New Zealand. No military survey organisations existed in the New Zealand army, and all mapping and chartering was done by the Department of Lands and Survey. However, the New Zealand SurveyorGeneral held the appointment of director of military survey with the rank of honorary colonel, Dr. Forbes said. Colonel MacDonald, while on the visit, will also attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors at Dunedin from October 11 to 16, in order to gain an insight into the present status of surveying in New Zealand, he said. Colonel MacDonald will leave Australia on October 5 and return on October 19.
Grass Fire.—A small grass fire at the rear of the Seamen’s Institute in Gladstone quay, Lyttelton, was soon under control, after it was attended to by two units of the Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade, soon after 4.30 p.m. yesterday.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 11
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