INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 33

INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS.

The Council of tho New Zealand Insti- j tuteof Surveyors met last week, the' Bon G. P. Richardson, president, in the chair. The resolutions passed at the last annual I meeting at the Thames were dealt with. A j deputation was appointed to wail upon the | Government to urge', the importance, in j the interests of surveyors, of passing tho j Surveyors' Dill this session,a measure which j has twice passed the Legislative Council, i and has been through the Waste Lands Committee of the Lower House. Copies of the examination papers set to survey candidates in tho Australian colonies, which hart been forwarded to the Council, were discussed, ami satisfaction was j generally expressed that New Zealand was now working in harmony in this respect, as tho result of a uniform system of examination throughout Australasia would be of much benefit to New Zealand surveyors, enabling them to practise there upon an Australasian certificate, fhe president was instructed to confer I wit h the SJurveyoi'-Ciuieral upon 1 he matter j ■ i th<; recently set-up Hoard of Examiners, I md to urg'' upon him the desirability of j two nou-ofiici.il members being appointed ,11 the Hoard. The secretary, Mr T. Ward, ivas iustriieted to write to the Surveyor- I leneral, and to suggest several new clauses j 'or insert i"ii in tin new survey regulations, I tnd to simplify the present form., of rtertarations.