CIVIL ENGINEERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 9

CIVIL ENGINEERS.

SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING.

(Br Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, Thursday.

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers was opened to-day, Mr. E. W. Holmes presiding.

At a special general meeting to consider amendments and additions- to rules, one amendment agreed to was to extend the scope of the society by admitting engineers who were not strictly civil engineers. Another amendment was: "The council may appoint committees for special purposes to report to tho council, and members of such committees need not necessarily all be members of the society. Council may, by special resolution, give to any committee power to act."

A proposal to hold the annual meeting in May in future was carried.

Mr. F. J. Williams, in seconding the motion for the adoption of the balancesheet, congratulated the society on its satisfactory financial position. The annual report of the council stated that the number of original members on tlie register was 93, and the number of associate members was nine.

Mr. Ferguson (Wellington) said that under the bill which it was proposed to bring before the Prime Minister it wae laid down that all local bodies should employ skilled engineers. It vras also proposed to set up a board of five, the society to be' represented by two members and the Government by three, to have power to carry out examinations and make regulations. He moved that the principle of the bill be affirmed and that the matter of promoting legislation be left in the hands of die council. The motion was carried.

It was decided to hold the next annual meeting in Christchurch.