SURVEY MARKS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 15

SURVEY MARKS

“The great increase in laying down of bituminous and concrete roads lias raised the question of the sanctity o the permanent survey marks, states the annual report of the New Zeala “S Institute of Surveyors. Vour council has had this matter well before it and has brought the matter before the notice of the Surveyor-General, the Mi ister of Lands, and all local od ' e ® h “ any way affected. In addition to general propaganda on the point th council made something of a test case of a portion of the Great South Ro running through the Waimain Cou This was due for permanent surfacing, and correspondence took place between the council and the Surveyor-General with the result that instructions weae issued to the Chief Surveyor concerned to adequately protect the permanen marks. . “The question of the right of surveyors to break permanent road formations in order to refer to survey marks was submitted to the Surveyor-General with the request that he obtain a legal opinion from the Crown Law Office The reply was to the effect that not only had the practising survevor ho right, but that he might be liable for penalty for so doing. It is understood that legislative remedy for this anomalous position is in course of preparation.”