ENGINEER HONOURED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 8

ENGINEER HONOURED

PRESENTATION BY TAKAPUNA COUNCIL A presentation was niade to Mr. Archibald Slinger at a valedictory gathering last evening, held after the close of the business session of the Takapuna Borough Council. Mr. Slinger, who has been resident engineer to the borough since the inception of its comprehensive sewerage scheme in February, 1924, is retiring on December 31, but will continue to act as consulting engineer. In proposing Mr. Slinger’s health, the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Williamson, said he had come to the borough to design and install the drainage scheme, work upon which was now practically completed. He paid a tribute to the manner in which the whole scheme had been carried through, and stated that Mr. Slinger’s foresight had provided for the requirements of Takapuna for some generations to come. Mr. A. M. Gould, who was Mayor of the borough .at the time of Mr. Slinger’s appointment, said the sum of £310,000 for loan works and another £50,000 of ordinary revenue had been expended under Mr. Slinger’s regime. His Work would always be a monument to his name, and all present ‘ would wish him every success in the future. Mr. Williamson then handed to Mr. Slinger a spirit-stand as a token of the esteem in which he \uas held* by the council and the rtiembers of the staff. Replying, Mr. Slinger said that the future would show that Takapuna was the key to the combined drainage scheme that must eventually serve the whole of the North Shore and the eastern bays. When that came about Takapuna would realise that it had made an excellent bargain in putting down its comprehensive drainage scheme, which was designed to act as the main link in a much bigger combined scheme in the future.