ENGINEERS' CONGRESS
MEETING IN NEW ZEALAND
(Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. The biggest congress of engineers ever held in 'New Zealand if not in the Southern Hemisphere is being arranged to take place in Wellington in February next year under the auspices of the New Zealand Institution 'of Engineers and in connection with the centennial celebrations. Matters are so far forward that the opening of the conference has been fixed for Monday, February 10, and invitations have been sent to every country in the British Empire as well as America to send representatives.
Answers to some of these have already been received by the secretary, Mr. H. L. Cole, which are considered most gratifying. Among those who have decided to attend are the president of the Civil Engineers' Society, of England, Mr. W.. J. E. Bennie, the president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers of England, Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, C.8.E., and the president of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain, Mr. Davis E. Roberts.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7
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