"AN EYE FOR BEAUTY."
ENGINEERS' QUALIFICATIONS {it i TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORttESPOKBENT.I • WELLINGTON. Tuesday. When examining' the plans for a county bridge, submitted to him during the course of a deputation yesterday, the Minister for Public Works, % Hon. J. G. Coates remarked that it seemed to have a good deal of " top hamper " about it. Did not the engineer think, he asked, that plain work was preferred to certain " fancy '! Work? The engineer replied that there would : not be £100 difference between the two. "That may be so,' replied the Minister, "but £100 is worth saving." Mr. Coatee,, who approved of the plan, remarked incidentally 4hat in his opinion, an engineer should be an architect. "He has to be a good business man, a commercial man,' remarked the Minister, " and he should have an eye for beauty. However, I am not an engineer." .'. ;■' . '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18586, 19 December 1923, Page 12
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