SURVEYORS’ CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1924, Page 1

SURVEYORS’ CONFERENCE

[ilY TKI.EOItAI'IT —I'Klt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON. August 21. A pa( er dealing with the denudation cf the forest on the higher levels, as all'ei-ting liver encroachments and other engineering problems, was read at the Surveyors’ Con lore nee by Air J. E. Meiizies. He doubted if tbe revenue derived for the next, hundred years from the sale or lease ot all the land ill the fioiirte-s of the livers in Nelson would pay for the protective work already done, and which will have to he done in the next ten years. It was a serious tiling if the back country, which in many ea-e.s was worth very liltle per acre, was lo he settled at the Cost, of the more valua'-le low-l.viug

Mr Shibdon (Now Plymouth) said a mislaUo had been made in tbe past in lulling tin- hush in flic high country. All the beds el' tlie ,streams in Taranaki find risen < ousiderably. in one instance as much as twelve loot.

A fioaity vole of tbanks was aeeordi:l Mr Meiizies for bis paper.

Mr Tresider. on behalf of the Dunedin I.ranch, brought ilp the question of tbe powers of Borough Councils under the Municipal Corporations Art reearding 1 fie siih-division of hind. In the i nnr.se of discussion. Air if. Brid". and Mr Seddon expressed the opinion that- (lie -Vet needed attending to and should more clearly define what were the power- of Borough Councils under 1 lie A 'l.

Tig. ( bail-man did not think that anything r: uld be dol e in til" matter. l,ui stated that the Minister bad been approa, bed on the subject. No doubt, it' would be covered in the Town I Manning Bi'L It was resolved, oil tile motion ol Mr ('oake that it le a recommendation to the Surveyor-General to .-imi lify the method of closing n-ads. \ resolution ap| roving •>! the institution of daylight saving in New Zealand was unaniinoi’-'y ado;.led. on the mot ion ol M r ( oo,\o.

O n tlie motion of Mr M ilkiusoii. it was resolved that the Cornu il be recommended fittingly to tceogni.-c the servir to the Institute ami the profession generally of Mr Tho-. Maid, of M’ellingtoii. The following motion was married, at tin., instance of Mr Littlejohn: ‘'That p |.. ~,, j u-.t motion to the ( ouncil to

take all possible steps lo secure the fins.ing of a Secret Alignment Act wfie ebv street boundaries re-establish-ed by a standard survey shall become tlie legal street line." Tiie visitors were entertained at dinner last evening. To-day they visit,,l Nelson College. T,.-mol row they will he taken for a drive to ( aide Bay pile Caw 111 roll Institute will also he visited.