AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 34

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.

LEI TI BER IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. AUCKLAND, February 4. The Auckland University College Council has appointed Mr Graham ook Bell to the position of lecturer in civil engineering, rendered vacant by the death of Mr D. E. Harkness in a flying boat accident off Milford Beach on December 12. Mr Bell, who is 31 years of age •was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, where he gained a junior university scholarship in 1015. He entered upon an engineering course at the Auckland University Colhg* in the following year, and from 1917 to 1919 studied at Canterbury College. He returned to 'Auckland in 1920 '■- fill a position as a designing engineer to the Auckland Harbour Board. Mr Bell graduated B.E. at the end of 1920, and two years later he gained the degree of M.Sc. In January, 1925, he was elected an associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. For seven years he was en gaged with the Auckland Harbour Board and in 1927 he left its employ to • isit Europe, where he visited many large en gineering work. On his return to New Zealand in 192 S he was appointed resident engineer at the Onakaka Iron and Steel Works for the installation of a hydro-electric power scheme, which was recently completed.