DRAINAGE ENGINEER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 10

DRAINAGE ENGINEER

MR R G. MACMORRAN

POSITION IN WELLINGTON

Advice of his appointment as chief drainage engineer under the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington has been received by Mr. R. G. Macmorran, • chief surveyor and chief drainage 'engineer at Auckland. From April 1 Mr. Macmorran will als.p take up the position of Assistant. Undersecretary for Lands, replacing Mr. J. H. O'Donnell, who is to retire on superannuation.

.'Mr. Macmorran joined the Lands and Survey. Department in Wellington in 190,4,-and he was transferred to Auckland as an assistant surveyor in 1908. Except for a period of service at the front in the war, Mr. Macmorran has been with the Department in the Auckland'district ever-since. In 1911 he was, appointed to the land drainage branch, and he became chief drainage engineer, in 1927 and in 1931 he added to his duties that of chief surveyor for the district.

Before the war Mr. Maemorran spent five years in land drainage work on the Hauraki Plains, and he then acquired much farming knowledge and experience with drainage problems that have-.been of great practical service to him. For the past eight .years he has supervised land development schemes in the district, the policy embracing the actual farming and grazing of land until it is' considered to be in suitable condition for subdivision for settlement. Mr. Maemorran will come to Wellington in three or four weeks.