PATEA HARBOUR BOARD

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIX, 8 July 1914, Page 2

PATEA HARBOUR BOARD

THE RESIDENT ENGINEER.

An Interesting Career,

The newly appointed Engineer, Mr H. P. Toogood, has had a most interesting career and from the testimonials and particulars received, he should prove to be the right man in the right place for the Board. Bom 35 years ago he was at 27 years of age appointed Resident Engineer for Messrs Howard Erskine Ltd, in the Rangoon Port Trust Improvements and had under his control the construction of ferro concrete retaining walls, steel and to-iuforced concrete wharves, transit sheds and wharf equipment to the value of £150.000. 'At the successful completion of this work the Public Works Department of Burma, offered Mr Toogood an appointment at a salary of £SOO per year. This however, Mr Toogood saw fit to decline. Later he was appointed Chief Assistant to the General Manager at the Head Office, Singapore, where he had considerable experience in harbour and river engineering under Mr Donald McDonald, the boat known harbour engineer in China and tho Eas:, In 1910 Mr Toogood was appointed tp curry out improvements to the entrance of (ho Hokitika harbour whore hia / work , was approved of by Mr O- W. I Dacley, lata Engineer in Chief and Harbours and Rivers Engineer, Now South Wales, tho Hokitika Harbour Board also expressing i a complete .satisfaction , with the success uud economy of the work carried out by Mr Toogood. The now engineer passed tho Now Zealand Matriculation examination in 1901 and after study. ing at the Canterbury College School of Engineering, passed tho exanaina. , tion for Bachelor of Science in 1906. fc? r Toogood has also had considerable practical experience of engineering having served for twelve mouths as an engine fitter in tho New Zealand Railway Department. His apprentice* ship was served with - Messrs David Robertson oud co., Iroafounders, Wellington.