NEW LECTURER IN ENGINEERING

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 3

NEW LECTURER IN ENGINEERING

CANTERBURY COLLEGE APPOINTMENT The first senior lecturer in structural engineering to be appointed to the staff of the Canterbury University College School of Epgineering, Mr D. Bruce Smith, has taken up his duties at the school. Educated in Christchurch, Mr Smith has had 10 years’ overseas practiced experience of many kinds of engineering work. The son of Mr and Mrs Douglas G. Smith, of Sumner, Mr Smith went to Christ’s College and Canterbury College, where he took the degree of bachelor of engineering, graduating in 1935. He first worked for Mr R. A. Campbell, a Christchurch consulting engineer who was formerly professor of engineering at Canterbury College. In 1938 he went to England, where he was employed by the Callander Cable and Construction Company. While working on bridge construction in England he was associated with Mr A. M. Hamilton, one of New Zealand’s most famous engineers. Joining the Malayan Public Works Service in 1939. Mr Smith went to Singapore. On the fall of Singapore he went to India, where he worked on railway construction on the Burma front with the Royal Indian Engineers. In the later years of the war he was assistant chief instructor at the Railway Bridge School in India. When he accepted his present post Mr Smith was senior executive • engineer of the Public Works Department in Singapore. He left Singapore at the end of last month.