Eminent Engineer To Advise Government

Chronicle (Levin), 16 August 1949, Page 6

Eminent Engineer To Advise Government

CHRISTCHURCH, August 15. The designer of the famous Boulder, Grand Coulee and Shasta dams, and of more than 55 other major dam and pow.er projects' in the United States, the Vangtze and tributary schemes in Central China and of immense . engineering projects in India, China, Turkey, Afghanistan, Australia and South America, Dr. John Lucian Savage, D.Sc., of Denver, has accepted an invitation from the Government to visit New Zealand to report on hydro-eieetric power schemes. Dr. Savage, the Minister of Works (Mr Semple) announced in an interview today, will arrive in the Dominion from South Africa early in October and will spend six weeks here. "The object of the Government 's invitation to Dr. Savage is to hav^ the rule put over work being done here and to give us his opinions and impressions on how an exeeptionally large amount of money is being spent on hydro-elec-tric power developments, " said Mr Semple. "Speeially do we want him to give a real study of the Roxburgh Gorge scheme, the biggest undertaking in this country and equal as a single engineering unit to anything in the world. There are big works under way and projected in New Zealand and we feel that we are entitled to obtain the help, guidance and advice of perhaps the most eminent designing engineer -in the world."