SURVEYORS' EXAMINATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 4

SURVEYORS' EXAMINATIONS.

STARTED YESTERDAY. 1 ~ .. .' The half-yearly examination: of eandi' ' dates for surveyors' licenses; opeiiM the-Dominion Museum yesterdi'"' -.i ' will be continued On the remai) « •of this week. Members of,then£T/, x Board present as examiners wd ( Jas. Mackenzie man, Mr. Tlios. Humphries,- Mr..'J-.. Wilmot (Chief Surveyor, Diinedin), J H. Sladdon, and Mr. 0. E. Adams ( retary). - - The proceedings ■ "Sterday mori opened with a viva ,-jco cxamiuatin candidates, before the board; as to professional training oxperienoo »• , fications. Before coming, up fork's. tion candidates are required to a full set of survey plans. With l , plans and field-books, before them, members of the board further exatnl candidates during tho latter part of forenoon.' • . ' In tho afternoon members of tho bf put candidates through their m&'j work, the following examiners taking .subjects indicated;— Mr. 1. Hump (practical astronomy); Mr. H. Slo, (practical levelling); Mr, E. H. W> - (examination in methods and field -/ft"; tico-ami in the> uso and .adjustment o surveying instruments).; .. , Tho written part ot the . examinat beKins' to-day 'at tho Dominion Muse; and will continue until Saturday next jmidday. The papers for this porhoi; o. the examination have been set on tnn casion by tho Queensland . Surve; Board.' For tho purposes of tlio cxau pitied New Zealand is affiliated, with . a . States of tho Commonwealth, to tho , ■; crated Surveyors Board of Australia -■ New Zealand.. Tho boards in each of 1.-r affiliated States take it m hims to rv examination papers for th® whole of . . i ■; tralasia. The papers upon winch > ; .. . will bo made in Welling tonb set simultaneously in all the Austu i. capitals. A candidate m Zealand or an Australian State \l.entitled to practise his profession in part of Australasia.