MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13875, 12 April 1907, Page 6

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

LECTURER FOR AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

(FBOH OUD OWJT CORRISFONDSNT.)

LONDON, March 1. According to present arrangements, Mr Sidney U. Lamb, whose aeeoplanco of the position of Lecturer in Mechanical l'Jngincering to tlio Auckland University Collogo I have already chronicled, will leave England by the Now Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Huapchu toward the end of March. Accompanied by Mrs Lamb and their two little girls, aged respectively six years and five, he will embark at Ply. month 011 the 23id March, after a farewell visit to relatives in Devonshire, to which county Mrs Lamb belongs. They expect to be in New Zealand' about the Etli May.

Mr Lamb himself is also a native of Devonshire, having been horn at Devonport. and at the age of 15 ho was apprenticed to the engineering profession in II.M. Dockyard of that, important naval centre. After winning a Whitworth Exhibition and a. National Scholarship, Mr Lamb came up to London to study at the Royal Colic,go of Science, where lie had a course of three years' duration (1E95 to 1898) under Professor Perry for, engineering, and under Professor Ruckcr (now principal of London university) for physics. In those two branches of study Mr Lamb was so fortu"aJp; as obtain a double associate. His first appointment in tho teaching profession was at the Gravcsend Technical bctiool, where lie went as assistant science master. After one session there ho was invited, in 1900, to go to Portsmouth as head of tho civil and mechanical cngineorin"* department, of the Municipal Technical In" stitutc, wftere lie has remained over since, as tho town and neighbourhood of Portsmouth suited him better than Gravcsend, while tho surrounding country and coast, reminded himself and his wife more of their native Further, Mr Lamb ia keenly interested in photography, and he found Portsmouth an excellent-, 'centre for the pursuance of this hobby. Sevoral views of Portsmouth and of the i!oi>»hboiirhcod of Plymouth have found acceptance by the author!! ies of the Southsea Photographic Exhibition. In Portsmouth Mr and' Mrs Lamb have made a laree eirclcof friends, and, naturally, thev will be sorry to part from them, but on Ihe other hand'they hear .splendid accounts of New Zealand and it's attractions and beauties from numerous mends who have been out there, particularly, perhaps, from their trends in the raw, who are very enthns'-.st'c about > 7 "w Zealand, so they are anxious to see (ho colony fnv themselves, ami they look forward with interest and pleasure to settling down in Auckland.,