CIVIL ENGINEERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 7

CIVIL ENGINEERS

OCTOBER EXAMINATIONS NEW ZEALAND NAMES (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 26th- Jan. A number o£ New Zealand students succeeded in the October examinations of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The list contains the following names:— Preliminary Examination.—o. D. Bell (Taumarunui), R. G. Brickell (Dunedin), J. R. Concher (Dunedin), J. L. Fraser (Auckland), 6. B. Hooker (Taumarunui), K. ]?. Jones (Auckland), N. A. L. MacDonald (Dunedin), G. H. M'Kenzie (Wellington), H. R. Reid (Christchurch), H. S. Southern (Canterbury), R. Stent (Christchurch). Associate Membership, whole examination (sections A, B, and C).—W. SI. Fisher (Lake Coleridge), R. M'lntyre (Dunedin), G. D. Turnbull (Gisborne). Sections A and B only.—C. E. K. AleI cock, C. W.'Fraser, E. J. Garlick, T. Moorhouse, J. A. Reynolds (Christchurch), I. ML. Malcolm (Dunedin), A. J. H'D. Miller (Auckland^. Sections-B and C only.—W. H.- French (Wellington). N. L. Patersou, R. G. Slyfield, W. Struthers (Auckland). Section A only.—L. A. Lincoln, R. O. Tomkius, W. F. young (Auckland), L. L. Meadowcroft (Blenheim), F. W. Pctre (Christchurch). Section B only.—N: R. Carter (Arrowtown), E. G. M'Leod (Wellington). Section C only.—P. Burgoyne, D. W. D. Hutcheson (Christchurch), J. H. Christie (Wellington), W. J. E. V. Grace and J. L. Raeburn (Waaganui).

Wide rubber arm ba ... that can be inflated and are kept from collapsing by means of a valve have been devised for swimmers. The wearing of these is said to make sinking almost impossible. Cuttlefish have another gift in addition to their well-known ability to eject streams of "ink" in self-defence. They change their colours at will, from pale brown to purple, grey, or green.