History

The Institution of Surveyors began as an Association originating from a suggestion made at a picnic and which conducted its monthly meetings at a pub (the Grand Hotel in Wynyard Street, Sydney). It might be reckoned by the uninitiated to have been convivial rather than to have had serous aims. However, the bearded elders of the profession were earnest, dedicated men and from the very first meeting in 1884, of what was then 'The Surveyors' Club of New South Wales,' papers of considerable importance were read, and the problems discussed were, in many of their aspects, those which perturb surveyors today. ...more