NEW APPOINTMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 8

NEW APPOINTMENT.

POST FOR MR. A. TYNDALL MINES UNDER-SECRETARY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON", this day. Well known as. the chief engineer of the Main Highways Board, Mr. Arthur Tyndall has been appointed to the position of Under-Secretary of Mines. He takes the place of Mr. A. H. Kiinbell, who retired recently. Mr. Tyndall is a Duncdinitc with a distinguished and varied professional career. He was born at Dunedin in 1891. and commenced his engineering experience as a cadet in the Dunedin office of the Public Works Department. He served under Mr. F. W. Furkert, until lately chief engineer of the Public Works Department, who was at that time engineer at ■Dunedin. Throughout Otago Mr. Tyndall gained experience in various classes of work, including railway, roads and irrigation schemes.

In 1914 he left the Government service and became assistant-engineer of the Dunedin City Council. On rejoining the Public Works Department in 1915 he was put in charge of the railway works at Taurangii, on the East Coast Jhiin Trunk line, afterwards being transferred to tnke charge of the construction of Featherstoii camp. Mr. Tyndall was then commissioned and given a stnff appointment as works engineer in charge of the engineering services of Trentham camp. On the closing down of the camp he had charge of the railway construction works at Oakleigh, North Auckland.

From 1920 to 1923 he was engineer in charge of public works ill Western Samoa, a post which offered wide opportunities for improving access and 6anitation in the islands. He then proceeded to America for further engineering experience, paying particular attention to highway construction, on which pursuit he toured Britain and the Continent. Returning to New Zealand in 1924, he was a_blc to give valuable advice to the Government on the organisation of roading on a national scale, this movement coinciding with the introduction of the petrol tax. A lead had been given in combined local schemes, but with Mr. Tyndall's experience the Government was able to frame legislation which established the Main Highways Board and resulted in the rapid development of arterial highways of improved specification and surfacing.