INSTITUTE OF SECRETARIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 6

INSTITUTE OF SECRETARIES.

EXAMINATION RESULTS, The following are the results of the examinations conducted in September by the Australasian Institute of Secretaries (Inc.);— . Intermediate Book-keeping, Commerc, t Company Law, and Secretarial. —J. H. Carver (Tokomaru Bay). Intermediate Commercial Law and Company Law,—E. Tonka (Auckland). Final Secretarial (three papers).—A. R. Hutchings, W. R. Mathieson (Wellington), J. M. Willoughby (Ashburton), H. G. West (Wanganui), Ifinal Secretarial, Paper lI.—F. Rhodes (Christchurch, completing examinations). Final Secretarial, Paper lI,—P, Kay (Te Puke). In the final examinations Mr A. R, Hutchings obtained the highest marks in Australia and New Zealand with an average percentage of 86.6 per cent., and thus gamed the institute’s gold medal. Mr W. R. Mathieson obtained second place in Australia and New Zealand, with an average percentage of 84.3.

CHAFING THE WIND. It must be about a century since Ailie Noble was buried beneath the snow. When I read that of every seven graves, one to-day is dug by the disease, the name of which I have avoided for 40 years. I cannot help, wondering whether medical science has made any progress during the last 100 years in fighting this foe. The words of the old Hebrew sage occur to me; “What has been, shall be; what has happened already will happen again; there is not a novelty under the sun. When anything occurs that one is. disposed to call really new, it will be found to have happened already—ages before us. Nobody remembers to-day the people of the olden time, and similarly the people of the after time will not be remembered by anybody who comes after them. . I, the speaker, gave my mind to the philosophic study and investigation of all that goes on under the sun. But a sorry business it is, that God has given men to busy themselves with. From my observation of all that goes on under the sun, I have come to the conclusion that it is all nothing but an illusion and a chasing of tiie wind.” I ask myself, are the doctors to-day with their philosophic studies and investigations but chasing the wind? I must take a little time to think over that.

is of the lightest possible design, consistent with safety, as is evidenced by the fact that the total weight is about 60 tons. In general appearance it is somewhat light and airy as seen from the railway, but it is sufficient to carry a succession of trucks, each bearing two .tons of phosphates, from a ship into the building. The bridge span roadway is 16 feet wide, having room for a double set of rails, one for the loaded trucks travelling up from a ship to the buildmg, and the other for the returning empty trucks. There is also ample room lor a footpath at one side. This structure was manufactured and erected by the Stevenson and Cook Engineering Company, Ltd., of Port Chalmers, and the most interesting stage

in the progress of the work was reached on Sunday, when the 68 foot span over the railway, weighing 16 tons, was lifted into position and bolted to the steel towers without obstructing the traffic. The erection of this span was necessarily carried out on Sunday between the hours of 10.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m., and, as a matter of fact, the work was completed and the workmen were all away before 2.30 p.m. In order to get the span into position without any danger of delaying the trains, special methods were_ necessary in the construction, and herein lay the novelty. The span, which actually measures 69 feet in-length and 22 feet in width over all, was erected alongside the line, and completely rivetted up. On Sunday morning, after the morning tram from Port Chalmers had passed, two railway cranes were drawn into position on the line, and first lifted the span clear of the ground and swung it into position across the line. Then, while one end was lifted from two derricks attached to the higher tower, 28 feet high, the other end was raised by two cranes, one

on each side, until the upper end rested in position on the steel tower 20 feet high, and the other end was suspended until the lower tower could be drawn into position and securely bolted, after whmh the lower end of the span was gradually lowered by the cranes into position. This span now rests on rollers at both ends so as to provide for expansion, and thus relieve the towers of any end thrust. Th ® method of erection was carefully thought out beforehand, and the work proceeded without the slightest hitch. Most of the time was taken up in swinging the span into position across the line, after which 46 minutes sufficed to raise the span; slide the tower into position, and make all secure.