SURVEYORS' EXAMINATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 4

SURVEYORS' EXAMINATIONS.

FOUR PASS OUT OFTWENTY-ON&

The results of-the annual examina-. tion of land; surveyors were madeavafl- 1 .• '..-; able yesterday., The papers, for-tha i ! examination were set by the Tasmardaa [ ' this year, and the examinations are held simultaneously ill • the centres ' throughout , Australasia, Wellington'being: the ; centre_ for New } Zealand. Twenty-one candidates safe ; for the examination, which was held Ikk : tween September 19 and .24, and of: that 1 number only four got .through. Of.. \ the four who passed: only one could claim , that it . was his first attempt. J The names: of the successful candidates were: — ' • George St. Vincent Keddell, of < .-v, the Lands and Survey: Office, Wd- ■ lington (first sitting). W. M. Gray, of the Lands and Snsv 1 , : vey Office, Christchurch. .w- .:■■■ ' i ; R.-T. Goulding, of Auckland. - ° R. S. Thompson, of Dunedin. One of the supervisors: was questioned . . , as to the reason- for.such a poor peiv ' oentage of passes—was the examination a very stiff one? He replied that ' examination papers were quite Teason- } ible. The cause of the failures was the state 'of unpreparedness tho • part of the ; majority. .' of ; tlhe candidates.i . On going over . the papers.they were surprised at the'littla .' . j hurdles most of the candidates stumbled , at—little elementary questions, the riije: ;; .v of which they should have at their. •' • finger-tips.