CIVIL ENGINEERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 700, 9 May 1916, Page 9

CIVIL ENGINEERS.

MEETING IN CHRISTCHURCH. OUTLINE OF PROGRAMME. The council of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers met at 10 a.m. to-day to consider the draft report to be submitted to the annual conference of the society, which commences at Canterbury College tomorrow. The president of the society, Mr R. W. Holmes (Engineer-in-Chief to the Public Works Department), will preside at the conference. The programme for Wednesday is first the general business of the'society, followed by the reading of papers of general engineering interest. There are 1,3 or M of these papers to be read. On Thursday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. conference will adjourn to permit of members inspecting the laboratory at the college and the testing ol certain materials. At 2 p m

on the same day there will be a visit j to the Drainage Board's pumping; plant and sewage farm, and in thej evening further papers will be read. | At 8.55 a.m. on Friday members will take train to Lyttelton, where [ they will be the guests of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. The harbourj works will be inspected, and lunch will be taken on the Harbour Board's tug. The annual dinner will be held in the evening, when a number of distinguished visitors will be present. On Saturday one party will go out to Lake Coleridge to inspect the Go-j vernment electrical works, and an-; other party will visit and inspect | the Government Workshops at Ad-j dington. In conversation with a Sun repre- i sentative yesterday, Mr R. S. Rounthwaite, secretary of the society, explained that the annual conference i is attended by all members of thej society who can conveniently be pre-' sent, and is not merely a meeting of I delegates. The hours of sitting for; the conference will be fixed at today's meeting of the council of the society.