TOWN-PLANNING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 10

TOWN-PLANNING.

AWARDING A DIPLOMA.

A BROADER BASIS

I IVIL ENGINEERS' SUGGESTION

1 he proposal to award a. diploma in town planning made by the Auckland University College was discussed at the annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial branch of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers last evening. Professor S. E. Lamb, a member of the special committee appointed to revise the scheme.- raised tlie question whether the work of the engineer was not being lost i-i.uliL of in the training of conditions governing examinations lor the diploma. Prolessor Lamb said it appeared to him oil reading the draft scheme that there was a strong bias towards the architectural viewpoint. However, civil engineers and surveyors were vitally interested in the question of town planning, it was suggested that any student desiring to take the diploma should pass certain examinations, which included the undertaking of three drawings under the head of practical work. In his opinion these drawings were too restricted in scope, lu addition, the examiners proposed to be appointed seemed too closely allied with architectural work to place the diploma on a broad basis.

-Mr. W. E. Hu.sli said lie had considered the question as a member of the 1 own Planning Institute. The examining body was to include the Professor of Architecture at. the University College. and lie was to have associated with him ;i member of the Society of Civil Engineers or someone approved by that body, lie agreed the suggested practical work could be greatly amplified in its scope. , It. was decided to leave the matter with the executive to confer with Professor Lamb with a view to drawing n|» suggestions deemed necessary fry in tlu> viewpoint of civil engineers.