Warning for surveyors

Press, 22 October 1980, Page 11

Warning for surveyors

PA Wellington Private-sector surveyors, must expand their range of services if their profes- . sion is to remain in business, according to the

Minister of Lands (Mr V. S. Young). This was one of the main points made; in a Link Consultants report on the profession commissioned by the Government, Mr Young told the Institute of Surveyors’ annual conference. Surveyors had .to enter i other areas of work and , lessen the reliance upon \

urban development activA. ty, Mr Young said. The report also said that the private sector had a significant role to play, in the provision of survey services to. the community- . .”.. . /'".' ;' “Naturally, the Government fully: • accepts . that view,” Mr Young,said. He said private sector surveyors might need some Government assistance to help them through the “period of change.” , The. decision whether. to change would be made by individual practices,": “but if the profession is to re-

main viable in the long term, then those changes must be seriously considered,” Mr Young said. He said he was studying the\ report’s conclusions ; and recommendations and -would discuss them with the Surveyor-General and the institute. ■ Mr Young announced that he had approved recommendations from the Survey Board for an increase in surveyors’ fees from November 1. Hourly fates had been. increased and would range from $23 t O '$ .3" 8 a