The antiquity of the profession of surveying was referred to at a smoke concert held to entertain delegates to the conference of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors at Auckland, when the president of the Institute, Mr C. K. Grierson, said: "The first book of the Bible' mentions that there was a boundary beyond which Adam was cast out. and we naturally assume that that boundary had been properly defined." There was a general burst of laughter when the speaker added that the Devil may have been the surveyor responsible.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 7
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