SOUTHERN YARDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 4

SOUTHERN YARDS

Executive Appointments

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 9. Mr A. E. Dennis, engineer and technical adviser to the Department of Industries and Commerce, has been appointed general manager of Stevenson and Cook, Ltd., engineers, Port Chalmers, and will leave Wellington shortly to take up the position. The firm are contractors to the Government for building minesweepers. This will be the immediate main work Mr Dennis will direct together with the planning and establishment of a new modern works and foundry. While in the Government’s service which he joined in 1938, Mr Dennis was in charge of the dismembering of the Port Bowen with which went the rehabilitation of the idle Kakariri freezing works. Owing to its success with the Port Bowen the Government decided to take over and break up the Mokola at Port Chalmers, and Mr Dennis will continue to direct these related works and also supervise the recovery of steel plate from the pipe lines of the abandoned section of the Waiporl hydro-electrical scheme operated by the Dunedin City Council. Before joining the Government service Mr Dennis was with Cory, Wright and Salmon, Wellington. Mr G. Gould, engineer with the Patent Slip Company, Wellington, has been appointed works manager to Stevenson and Cook, Ltd.