TOWN PLANNING LAWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 9

TOWN PLANNING LAWS

MUST BE WATCHED,” SAYS SURVEYOR GOVERNMENT CO-OPERATION Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The president of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, Mr. Preston Chambers, at the annual meeting of the institute yesterday, commented on the improvements made in the provisions of the Town Planning Bill, and urged a continued scrutiny of the measure. “Our efforts,” he said, “have been largely instrumental in producing these improvements, and we must continue our vigilance in the direction of requiring any new clauses affecting Ihe survey procedure to have the, endorsement of our council before submission to legislative action. We must watch, too, what the trend of any new legislation is likely to be, for in a young country like this, whose progress is largely dependent on private enterprise, private interests are not to be callously sacrificed at the whim of enthusiastic innovators, whoever they may be. “It would indeed be 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 to the council of our institute, which commands the experience of men whose business largely consists of practical application of town planning principles, and who are in consequence properly skilled in such matters.”