N.Z .Surveyors’ Quest For Higher Pay From The State

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1949, Page 7

N.Z .Surveyors’ Quest For Higher Pay From The State

P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 4. The New Zealand Institute of Survevors at its annual conference at New Plymouth to-day, decided to support, the endeavours of surveyors in the employ of the State to achieve a salary status considered by them to be commensurate with their professional status and responsibilities. The conference recommends its council to take up the matter with the authorities concerned. The question was dealt with at length by the surveyor-general, Mr R. G. Dick during a discussion on the following motion, which was carried. —“That taking into consideration serious arrears of urgent survey works , which are required as a basis for development of resources of the Dominion, this conference mews with concern the inadequacy of the numerical strength of the field staff of the Lands and Survey Department, and, therefore its inability to cope with these urgent commitments, and, in the light oi information placed before this conference, urges the council to take immediate steps to approach the authorities with the object of ‘obtaining a substantial increase in the salaries paid to surveyers in the Public Service, and thus reduce losses caused by resignations, and make careers and prospects for recruitment of surveyors more attractive.”