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Otago Witness, Issue 3855, 31 January 1928, Page 25

“ A lot of people think engmoerin'r oml business are not connected, hot in my opin-nn thov nro c!o«elv mter-related ’’ remnrked Mr F. N- TRonmson. district Public Work= engine’'!- in Napier, nt a farewell to li : m recently prior to his l«"v--ing for Wellington (reports the Telegraph). Mr Thompson .said th-t it was an omrineer’s inb to gn-e value fn r mm oy end he quoted the American definition tl’at an engineer w»s a man who cnnld do for one dollar what any ffiol could do for two. An engineer, he said, was not ro build imposing 'Structures Jo be something in the nature'of a permanent nx>""ment; but to make the best u=e he coyld of the money that was available and give the most aorviceab’o article he’ could for tt»at expenditure. remarked, however, that if. ever an engineer recommended ® temncrjirv struct-'-e J wa s usually dona “ against* his- grain."