"THE DOOR SPIDER."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 438, 22 February 1909, Page 5

"THE DOOR SPIDER."

EXPLANATION BY THE HON. A. W. HOGG.

.':/ Making .further .reforenoe ;to tho Dawson Suspension- Bridge controversy, the Hon. A, W. Hogg,'speaking : at:.the opening of the ..Melling Sußpehsion Bridge'on :Saturdayi re-' marked:—"if has b'een f said JateJy cbricerhing' the.-: opening: of one. of : bur up-country, bridges.that I was/rather severe upon some of pur.engineers.vl am afraid.that; like.a. good many,, : I have ..been : misunderstood, bocause I never made',ahy general '"attack'upon the ; engineers of New Zealand.; I venture to' say thatji in this l country,!we.haye as able';engineers and;as 1 ..well;au'alified,as are to be found in almost any other parf.of the world. I would.be very ..sorry indeed to.cast any, unwarranted and undue; reflections upon the engineers of ; my own Department or those connected with local bodies, but you -will find men who■ do not advance with .tho times. These men may; have been trained in a good sohoOlj but mot only had ihey become fossilised, . but.when they' began' to think that they., had leariied" all -that could bo learned, they could not advance another step forward, and," Unfortunately, the man who has, constructed this bridge has had to contend with" obstruction, of the character I have indicated. Those were ..the men; so-called engineers, that I have .been referring to up country."