STATUS DEFINED

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 15

STATUS DEFINED

ENGINEERS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES

v : An interesting address'onth^ rights 'and duties of engineers was given-in the Harris street rooms last' evening by Mr. W. Perry, who covered the employment and authority, duties, liability to examine sites ahd: foundations,, liability as to plans and specifications, the property in plans, liabilities as to acceptance of tenders, superintendence, of works, certificates of measurements, fraud and secret commissions, and other phases.of the legal responsibilities of engineers. '

"Is is a good thing for the community that the status' of engineers has been recognised' -by; the Legislature," said Mr. Perry. '"The Engineers: Begistratiou Act of 1924 was tKe'flrst legislative recognition ot that status, in -New. Zealand. By that Act a Board was constituted) as well as ;a,'-Rp'gistrar of Engineers, -whose duty: it is toikeep at 'his: office a register of •engineers sin which shall be entered the naines^ of all persons registerea' under the Act,, the qualifications by virtue. of .which, they are so registered;.and other, particulars in relation thereto .as may from time tO:time be prescribed;. ,:Tho qualifications are prcscribediby the Act, and amongst them is the .qualification that the applicant has passed atf examination, or examinations, approved-by the board. By the regulations made from time to time under tho Act it is provided that any person, desiring'to be registered as a civil engineer must first have passed the matriculation ex-, lamination of the University of New. Zealand (including mechanics) and; including the engineering preliminary -of ; the University. An sipphcaiit who pos-1 sesses the. prescribed qualifications :is' entitled to be registered under the Act, and to have his name recorded upon the register of engineers. "The board may cancel the registration of any person who is convicted of an, offence punishable by imprisonment 'or dishonouring hini, in tho public .estimation, or who has been guilty of such, improper conduct as renders him, in-the' Opinion of the board, unfit. to: be registered under the Act. Every porson whose application haa been declined by the. board, or whose "name, has been removed from registration, may within three months after such refusal or removal has been communicated to him by the registrar, appeal to a board of appeal .consisting "of a Magistrate and two assessors, and the determination of such board of appeal shall be final and conclusive."

To sliow a profit a 30,000-ton ocean liner nuisfeai-n £70Q,Q00 a year. .Racji rlny she is at sea such a.' vessel costs £ISOO for running esiienses. ' • / .