TOWN PLANNING

Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 3

TOWN PLANNING

NEED FOR VIGILANCE ■ [Pi* Ukitsd Pkb:» Associatics.") WELLINGTON, August 5. Tho President of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors (Mr PrestonCliambers), at tho annual meeting of the institute today, commented on tho improvements made in the provisions of the Town Planning Bill, and urged continued scrutiny of_ the measure. “Our efforts,” ho said, “have boon largely instrumental in producing these improvements, and we must con tinue our vigilance in the direction of requiring any new clauses affecting survey procedure to have tile endorsement of our council before submission to legislative action. We must watch, too, as to what tho trend of any new legislation is likely to be, for in. a young country like this, whoso progress is largely dependent on private enterprise, private interests arc not to be callously sacrificed, at tho whim of enthusiastic innovators, whosoever they may be. It would indeed he well if the Government, which does not hesitate to consult competent .persons outside its service in matters of moment other than town-planning movements, extended similar consideration' in this connection to the council of our institute, which commands the experience of men whose business largely consists of the practical application of town-planning principles, and who are in consequence properly skilled in such matters.”