Debate on statutory control of the surveying profession in Queensland : 1907 to 1975

This article was written in 1997. After a 2009 review the content was left mostly unchanged - apart from this re-written abstract, restructured headings and a table of contents. The article deals directly with professional registration of surveyors; but it also relates to government procurement of professional services. The issues include public service and professional ethics; setting of professional fees; quality assurance; official corruption; and professional recruitment, education and training. Debate on the Land Surveyors Act 1908 (Qld) and its amendments to 1916 occurred at a time when industrial unrest of the 1890s and common market principles of the new Commonwealth were fresh in peoples’ minds. Industrial issues led to a constitutional crisis in the Queensland’s then bicameral legislature and frustrated a first attempt to pass a Surveyors Bill in 1907. The Bill was re-introduced in 1908 after fresh elections and Kidston’s return as state premier. Co-ordinated immigration and land settlement polices of the colonies were discontinued when the Commonwealth gained power over immigration in 1901. Concerns shifted to protecting jobs from foreign competition. Debate on 1974 amendments to the Act reflected concerns about skill shortages and professional accreditation. However, in times of economic downturn, a so-called ‘chronic shortage of surveyors’ could rapidly degenerate into oversupply and unemployment. Theorists championed a naïve ‘capture theory’ where the professions captured governments to create legislative barriers to entry to the professions. Supposedly, this allowed rent-seeking and monopoly profits through lack of competition. However, historical evidence suggests that governments have been capable of capturing and exploiting surveyors. More enlightened institutional arrangements are needed if the community is to receive benefits commensurate with sizable co-investments of public and private resources in developing human capital.

[Planos del Estado de Nuevo León de 1894, 1903, 1904, 1907 y 1908] , [Mapa]

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PB1908-27 Loss From Cornstalk Disease in Custer County, Nebraska, During the Winter of 1906-1907 (Distributed January 1908, Reprinted December 1930)

"Cornstalk disease" is the name given to the cause or causes of death of cattle allowed to run in fields of standing cornstalks from which the ears have been gathered. It is probable that "many different maladies have been included under this name." In Nebraska, however, there is such a similarity in the symptoms reported by the farmers that it seems probable that the great majority of the losses attributed to cornstalk disease are really due to some common cause. As to the exact nature of this cause nothing is known. However, various theories have been advanced, and methods of prevention or treatment based upon these theories have been described.

Die Austritte aus dem Judentum in Berlin während der Jahre 1907 und 1908

Bruno Blau

The condition of women workers under the present industrial system: an address by Ida M. Van Etten at the National Convention of the American Federation of Labor held at Detroit, Michigan, December 8th, 1890

At head of title: Publication of the American Federation of Labor.

The Convention on the Future of Europe: Extended Working Group or Constitutional Assembly? Research Papers in Law, 4/2005

From the Introduction. “We are a Convention. We are not an Intergovernmental Conference because we have not been given a mandate by Governments to negotiate on their behalf the solutions which we propose. We are not a Parliament because we are not elected by citizens to draft legislative texts. […] We are a Convention. What does this mean? A Convention is a group of men and women meeting for the sole purpose of preparing a joint proposal. […] It is a task modest in form but immense in content, for if it succeeds in accordance with our mandate, it will light up the future of Europe”.1 In his speech inaugurating the Convention process on 26 February 2002 in Brussels, Convention President VALÉRY GISCARD D’ESTAING raises three issues: first, he refers to the Convention’s nature and method; second, he talks of the Convention’s aim and output; and, third, he evokes the Convention’s historic and symbolic significance. All three aspects have been amply discussed in the past two years by politicians and academics analysing whether the Convention’s purpose and instruments differ fundamentally from those of previous reform rounds; whether the input into and output of the Convention process qualitatively improves European Treaty revision; and whether the Convention as an institution lived up to its symbolic and normative load, reflected in comparisons with “Philadelphia” or references to a “constitutional moment”.2

The present administration. : Speech of Hon. Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan, in the House of representatives, Monday, February 3, 1908.

Caption title.

A list of books exhibited December 30, 1907--January 4, 1908, including incunabula and other early printed books in the Senn collection.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual convention of the Michigan Bankers' Association ...

List of members in vols. for 1900-

The revised constitution of the state of Michigan, adopted in convention, August 15, 1850.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of the ... annual convention, Diocese of Western Michigan.

Vol. for 23rd (1897) includes diocesan Constitution and canons.

Le jansénisme; étude doctrinale d'après les sources. Leçons données à l'Institut catholique de Paris, novembre 1907 - janvier 1908,

"Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française."

Journal of the Philippine commission : being the inaugural session of the first Philippine Legislature, begun and held at the city of Manila October 16, 1907 [to February 1, 1908].

Included also in the entry for the numbered session.

The American Constitution; the national powers, the rights of the states, the liberties of the people; Lowell institute lectures, delivered at Boston, October-November, 1907,

Mode of access: Internet.

Judicial proceedings respecting constitutional validity of the Industrial disputes investigation act, 1907,

Mode of access: Internet.