WARTIME CHIEF OF ARMY MAPPING UNIT IN N.Z. FOR CONFERENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, 28 October 1950, Page 8

WARTIME CHIEF OF ARMY MAPPING UNIT IN N.Z. FOR CONFERENCE

WELLINGTON, Oct. 26 (PA).— Major-General R. A. Brown, C. 8., C.8.E., Director-General of Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, arrived in Wellington in the Dominion Monarch today. Major-General Brown is to take part in a conference between British Commonwealth and United States survey authorities. He is the first of 35 visitors to arrive. Two conferences will take place, the first between the Australian and New Zealand bodies and the second an international conference for the purpose of reciprocity in the qualifications of land surveyors. New Zealand and Australia have had reciprocity for some time. The conferences will open on November 6 and continue till November 18. Visitors will be from the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaya, Canada, Ceylon, Sarawak, and Australia. Major-General Brown was in charge of the Army mapping unit during the last war. His unit prepared about 150,000,000 maps and copies during the war. These included invasion maps. He had a mixed American and British staff which worked “like a charm.” “We captured maps in the Western Desert that were better than we had,” he said, “but later Rommel paid us the compliment of ordering his troops to use our maps when captured.”