SIR WILLIAM HUDSON

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 7

SIR WILLIAM HUDSON

Visit To NX This Year The New Zealand-born Chief Commissioner of the Australian Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (Sir William Hudson) will visit New Zealand in December to deliver the main address at a water symposium in Wellington which the Institution of Engineers is arranging. Sir William Hudson has been head of the Snowy Mountains Authority since 1949, and recognition of his work there includes the award of Australasian Engineer in 1957 and the Kernot Memorial Medal in 1959, which is awarded for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. In 1961 he was elected a Fellow of University College, London, and received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from the Australian National University. He has also been appointed an honorary member of both the Australian Institution of Engineers and the Australasion Institute of Mining and metallurgy. In March this year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Sir William Hudson, before taking his present position, was with the Armstrong-

Whitworth Company, London, on hydro electric design work. He had previously worked on New Zealand’s Arapuni project in the 1920’5, with the Sydney Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, and with Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, London. He attended Nelson College, graduated in civil engineering from University College, London, and did postgraduate study at Grenoble, France.