GOOD RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 11

GOOD RECORD

CIVIL ENGINEERS' ■EXAMINATIONS

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

A striking testimony to tho system of training of civil engineers in : New Zealand is given by the results of the October examinations of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Of the total of thirteen candidates who passed the whole examination (sections A, B, and C) •no fewer than six were New Zealanders, or 45.2 per cent. Tor the preliminary examination there were 75 candidates who were successful, seven being New Zealanders. The oxamination for associate membership found 18 successful candidates in sections A and B, six of whom were residents of tho Dominion. Five passed in sections A and C, only one of whom was a New Zealander. Fourteen were successful in sections B and C, six being New Zealanders. The 79 successful candidates for section A included eleven New Zealanders.. The section B passes totalled 36, including two New Zealanders, and in section C 122 passed, including 14 New Zealanders. When it is remembered that the population of New Zealand is but .4 per cent, of that of the whole of the British Empire, it says something for the New Zealand system that tho Dominion should have obtained 15 per cent, of tho total passes.