SURVEYORS’ MARKS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 10

SURVEYORS’ MARKS

Importance Stressed Concern at the failure of the comjfiunity to realise the importance of the ground marks put in by surveyors during their work was expressed by delegates at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. “More than merely the comers of properties ■is involved in this casual indifference,” says a statement issued by the institute. “Points such as the blocks and marks of the standard traverses of city streets, and the signals and points of the triangulation system of the'Dominion, are also seriously disturbed, or, in the case of trig, points, destroyed, pulled up, or rendered useless by plantations. “The man in the street, or the settler, does not seem to understand that the safety of his title to landed property depends in a large measure on the integrity of such points, which have been established at great cost and with meticulous care, and are an essential factor in the re-establishment and verifications of property corners and boundaries. “Even the Government has, in the past, failed to provide the funds necessary for the upkeep and restoration of lost or damaged points, in spite of the representations of its technical advisers.” '

The following officers of the institute were elected at the meeting:— President, Mr. C. K. Grierson; vicepresidents, Mr; H. L. Paterson and Mr. M. Gandnr; councillors, Messrs. E. C. Barker, E. V. Blake, M. Crompton Smith, F. I. Ledger, H. L. P. Dyett, L. J. Poff. A. H. Bogle; auditor, Mr. G. J. J. Feil, F.P.A.N.Z.; secretary and treasurer, Mr. H. Esmond Greig. AP.A.N.Z.