SURVEYORS' EXAMINATION

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 4

SURVEYORS' EXAMINATION

KECORD LIST OP ENTRANTS. A half-yearly examination of candidates for surveyors' licenses was commenced yesterday in the presence of the New Zealand Surveyors' Board, which consists of Mr. Jas. Mackenzie (Surveyor-General), Mr. T. Humphries (president of the New Zealand Surveyors' institute), Mr. T. M. Brodrick (Chief .Surveyor), Mr. H.' Sladden (a member of the council of the Institute of Surveyors), Mr. .1. W. Harrison (an Auckland surveyor), and Mr. C. E. Adams (secretary).

That portion of the examination conducted yesterday consisted of a vivn voce examination of candidates, by members of the board, in the laws and regulations relating to survey work, practical astronomy,, practical levelling, and the use and adjustment of surveying instruments. To-day a start will be made, at Victoria College, upon the written portion ot the examination. This work will occupy candidates until .Saturday. The. papers have been set on this occasion by the Sydney Surveyors' Institute. For purposes of examination New Zealand belongs to a federation which includes in its membership the surveyors' boards of all the Australian States. The different boards take it in turns to draw up the examination papers, and a uniform examination is jet simultaneously throughout Australasia. The papers Upon which a start is to be made in Wellington to-day will also engage the attention of candidates in the different Australian States. Candidates who pass • the examination become , entitled to practise as surveyors in any part of Australasia.

The number of New Zealand candidates in the examination now in progress is 3G. This constitutes a record, and seems to indicate that the dearth )f surveyors recently commented upon in Parliament may shortly disappear.