Mar. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 759

(d.) Shall have taken a degree in civil or mining engineering at any university recognised by the University of New Zealand, and shall have been professionally employed in the field to the satisfaction of the Board for a period of two years with a qualified surveyor or surveyors in private practice.

7. Field service with a Government surveyor cannot be recognised as complying with these regulations, except in the case of a field cadet of one of the Government Departments of Lands and Survey or of Public Works.

8. Evidence of the commencement of service must be supplied to the Board within six months of the date of beginning such service.

9. All transfers from one surveyor to another must be notified to the Board by the candidate within three months of the date of such transfers.

10. Documentary evidence will be necessary in support of these conditions.

11. Every candidate shall be required to produce, in the form given hereunder or to the like effect, a certificate from a qualified surveyor or surveyors with whom he has been professionally employed that he is qualified to undertake surveys, viz. :—

Certificate of Field Service and Competency for Presentation to the Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand.

I, A. B., of __, a qualified surveyor, hereby certify that C. D. has been professionally and continuously employed with me as __ in the practice of land-surveying for the period of __ years __ months—viz., from __ to __—and that he has served me under articles [or as a field cadet in the Lands and Survey or in the Public Works Department] for a period of three years, two of which have been spent in field service, and that he is fully competent to undertake surveys in accordance with the Survey Regulations.

The nature of his employment during the period specified is indicated hereunder :—

[Here give full particulars of his field service under such of the following heads as he has had experience in: Minor Triangulation, Topographical Surveying, Settlement Surveying, Land Transfer Town Surveying, Road Surveying and Grading, &c.]

Summary :—

In the field, __ years __ months.

In the office, __ " __ "

Total service, __ " __ "

Date : __. (Signature) A. B.

12. A “qualified surveyor” shall mean any person entitled to practise as a land surveyor in any part of the British Empire where the standard of examination is, in the opinion of the Board, equivalent to that prescribed by these regulations.

13. Every candidate shall forward with the notice referred to in Regulation 2 (a),—

(a.) A plan and particulars of the measurement of a base-line, not less than 80 chains in length, connected by a series of at least three triangles with the triangulation of the district.

(b.) A plan of a topographical survey of the area triangulated.

(c.) A plan of at least 40 acres of rural land showing stream and road traverses.

(d.) A plan of an area having buildings thereon, in illustration of a town survey under the Land Transfer Act.

(e.) The original field-books, traverse tabulations, and all calculations connected with the above surveys.

The plans must be plotted and drawn by the candidate on drawing-paper 20 in. by 20 in., from surveys made in accordance with the Survey Regulations, and shall have a certificate attached that both field-work and plans are executed by himself. Sufficient notice must be given to the Board by the candidate to enable an inspection of the field-work to be made if considered necessary.

14. If the foregoing preliminary conditions are complied with to the satisfaction of the Board, the candidate will be admitted to examination.