MR. EVANS’ APPOINTMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1945, Page 4

MR. EVANS’ APPOINTMENT

ENGINEER AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. Pending rearrangement of staff under the reconstruction of the Public Works Department, Mr. F. D. Grant, who has been acting as district engineer for Canterbury . for nearly three years, has been appointed act-ing-main highways engineer, his place to be taken by Mr. E. F. Evans, district engineer at Greymouth, who will be in charge of the combined Canterbury-West Coast districts in the meantime. Mr. Grant will leave on Saturday for Wellington. He will take the position to which his predecessor here. Mr. F. Langbein, was appointed. Mr. Langbein is now an inspecting engineer to the Public Works Department. Mr. Evans joined the Public Works Department at Wellington 34 years ago as a cadet, after four years at the Wellington Technical College, and h.- has had a wide and varied career. After service at Gisborne, he came to the South Island, being engaged on the engineering for the CromwellClyde railway, the Beaumont-Rox-burgh railway, the Catlins railway, and on Pood protection works on the Taieri plain. For 18 months before the work was closed down in 1930, he was in charge of railway construction on the Marlborough end of the South Island Main Trunk railway, with headquarters at Wharanui. For some yeaTs now he has been district engineer at Greymouth, among the works under his control being the new highway to South Westland, a scheme including many bridges. An associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Mr. Evans is also a in ember of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.