AUCKLAND CITY ENGINEER

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1930, Page 9

AUCKLAND CITY ENGINEER

MR. JAMES TYLOR APPOINTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Mr. James Tylor, acting city engineer, was to-night appointed city engineer by the Auckland City Council. Six names selected by a special committee of the council were first reduced to three on the following voting: Mr. Tyler, 17; Mr. E. H. Barber, deputy engineer, Sheffield, 15; Mr. A. G. Bush, borough engineer, Lower Hutt, 12; Mr. A. R. Galbraith, city engineer, Christchurch, 11; Mr. N. Weeks, private practitioner and ex-city engineer, Sydney, 4; Mr. S. A. Hill Willis, engineer, Tilbury urban district council, 4. The first three names were then submitted to a final ballot, which resulted: Mr. Tylor, 13; Mr. Barber, 7; Mr. Bush, one. The decision was made after a lengthy discussion. The council had last - month asked Mr. F. W. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works, and Mr. J. W. Mawson, Director of Town Planning, to make a confidential report on the six applicants. Mr. Furkert wrote, saying that neither viewed with any enthusiasm the prospect of having to make a decision to begin with. They did not think it right that they should be required to judge between six men when it was quite within the bounds of possibility that one of the 60 or more already rejected might be better than any one of them. Suggestions that the matter should be submitted to the council of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers or the Town Planning Board were not adopted by the council, which then proceeded to make the appointment itself.