RAILWAYS AND ROADS.
MODERN SYSTEMS STUDIED CONSTRUCTION AND FINANCE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Monday. The assistant-engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, Mr. C. J. McKenzie, has returned to Wellington after A nine months' trip abroad investigating modern methods and practices in engineering in America, Great Britain and on the Continent, and their application to New Zealand conditions. Mr. McKenzie "particularly examined the questions relating to tunnelling machinery, highway construction and finance, railway construction, and the systems in vogue for regulating competition between motor-buses and trams. The results of his investigations will be the subject of a report to tho Minister. Mr. J, R. Marks, district engineer at Dunedin. accompanied Mr. McKenzie to America to investigate irrigation problems. particularly iir California, and to gather information in regard to highway engineering.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 10
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