UNIFORM CONDITIONS
COUNTY ENGINEERS A letter from the Professional Engineers’ Association which was received at last Tuesday’s, meeting of the Whakatane County Council suggested a model set of conditions of appointment and schedule of duties for County Engineers. The chairman (Mr 'J. L. Burnett) stated that the idea behind it was to have a uniform schedule so that qualified engineers would be appointed on a scale according to . the population and capital value of the individual areas. This would mean a fixed salary which in the case of the .Whakatane County Engineer would be between £7OO and £BOO per annum. The one ‘fly in the ointment’, he continned was the fact that all engineers, whether good, bad or. indifferent, would be fixed to the same scale.
Cr H. C. McCready: By that, some engineers will get a very small salary. '
The Chair-man: That’s what will bi-ing about an amalgamation of some of the smaller counties. Some at the bottom of the list have populations of only 1800. Cr Hunter:'The whole thing is wrong. A good engineer should command a good price, and not be tied down to a fixed scale.
The Chairman pointed out that with the present acute shortage of engineers, any qualified man would have a job whether he was particularly good at it or not.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 30, 27 September 1946, Page 5
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218UNIFORM CONDITIONS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 30, 27 September 1946, Page 5
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