DUNEDIN CONTRACTORS
NEW GENERAL MANAGER MR A. E. DENNIS APPOINTED Wellington, Sept. 9. The engineer and technical adviser to the Department of Industries and Com--1 merce, Mr A. E. Dennis, has been appointed general manager of Stevenson and Cook, Limited, engineers. Port Chalmers, and will leave Wellington shortly to take up his position. The firm are contractors to the Government for j building minesweepers. This will be the immediate main work Mr Dennis will direct, together the planning and establishment of new modern works and foundry. While in the Government service, which he joined in 1938, Mr Dennis was in charge of the dismembering of the Port Bowen, with which went the rehabilitation of the idle Kakariki freezing works. Following its success with the Port Bowen, the Government decided to take over and break up the Mokoia at Port Chalmers, and Mr Dennis will continue to direct these related works and also supervise the recovery of steel plate from the pipelines of an abandoned section of the Waipori hydro-electric scheme operated by the Dunedin City Council. Before joining the Government service Mr Dennis was with Cory Wright and Salmon, Wellington. Mr G. Gould, engineer with the Patent Slip Company, Wellington, has been appointed works manager to Stevenson and Cook.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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