LATE MR. EVAN PARRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 75, 25 September 1941, Page 5

LATE MR. EVAN PARRY

MEMORIAL PROPOSED

A suggestion was made by the president of the Electric Supply Authority Engineers' Association, Mr. M. Cable, at the conference yesterday, that engineers of New Zealand should place on permanent record their appreciation of the high qualities of the late Mr. Evan Parry, formerly Chief Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department, whose death occurred recently in Britain. Engineers owed so much to the late Mr. Parry that, he thought, they should do something to ensure that his work should be long remembered. He suggested that a tablet might be erected at the Lake Coleridge hydro-station, with which the late Mr. Parry had been most closely associated.

The Electricity Controller, Mr, F. T. M, Kissel, said that probably he had been more closely associated with the late Mr. Parry than any other engineer in the Dominion. He was a man for whom all who knew him could have nothing but profound respect as an engineer, and as a gentleman.

Mr. E. Hitchcock (Christchurch) said that every engineer who had worked with Mr. Parry owed him a great debt of gratitude. He strongly endorsed Mr, Cable's suggestion that New Zealand engineers should pay some permanent tribute to his memory.