ROADING STUDY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 4

ROADING STUDY

Award To Engineer A senior engineer in the pavements section of the Ministry of Works roading divlRoad Federation. He is Mr inaugural overseas study award of the New Zealand Road Federation. He is Mr A. H. Buckland. The award was established by the federation and is financed partly from federation funds, and partly from subscriptions from member companies, allied associations and the National Roads Board.

Mr Buckland will study quality control in road construction, bitumen stabilisation techniques, cement-treat-ed base practice, and other points of importance to all road-builders and road-users. Mr Buckland’s tour, extending from late July until midOctober, will include consultation with State highway authorities and university research workers in the United States from California through Oregon, Idaho, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York. He will visit the American headquarters of the International Road Federation in Washington to which the New Zealand Road Federation is affiliated. From the United States, Mr Buckland will go to London to attend the fifth world congress of the International Road Federation in late September. While in Britain he will visit the road research laboratory of the Minister of Transport and the roading departments of Worcester county and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Born in Roxburgh, Central Otago, Mr Buckland began his schooling in Napier and completed his primary and secondary education in Waimate, later taking an engineering degree at Canterbury University College. Mr Buckland has worked on several projects, including the Roxburgh hydro electric scheme and the Meremere steam power station. He was also with the Ministry of Works at Whangarei and, for a time, in private practice as a consultant in Hamilton.