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Moutoa Sluice Gates
Completed in 1962, the Moutoa sluice gates form a major component of the lower Manawatu River Control Scheme – New Zealand's first major river control scheme. In 1990 it was recorded that these gates, located between Shannon and Foxton, could divert more flood water than any similar structure in New Zealand.
Mahurangi Cement Works
The Mahurangi Cement Works ruins, near Warkworth, was the site of New Zealand’s first Portland cement manufacturing in the 1880s.
William Newsham Blair (1841–1891)
William Newsham Blair was born in Scotland. For a few years before he immigrated to New Zealand he worked in the surveying and engineering fields, notably for Sir Thomas Bouch’s Edinburgh engineering firm.
Samuel Jickell (1856–1939)
Samuel Jickell was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England. He was educated and trained in England and Europe before coming to New Zealand in the early 1880s. He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, in 1889.
Robert Park (1933–2004)
Robert Park was born in Suva, Fiji on 13 August 1933 and received his initial education in Suva. He studied civil engineering at Canterbury University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours in 1956 and a Master of Engineering degree with distinction in 1958. In 1964 he was awarded a PhD at the University of Bristol.
Neville Longbourne Vickerman (1893–1978)
Neville Vickerman, a Past President of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers (now the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, IPENZ), died during June 1978 at age 85. He was a former Chief Engineer to the Auckland Harbour Board.
Kenwyn Douglas Tatham Shores (1927–2016)
Kenwyn Douglas Tatham Shores was born in Christchurch on 13 February 1927, grew up in Auckland and was educated at Auckland Grammar and subsequently at the Auckland School of Engineering at Ardmore. Ken’s career spanned a period of significant growth in New Zealand and as a highly skilled civil and structural engineer, he made an outstanding contribution to modern New Zealand.
John Gill Lancaster (1883–1950)
At the time of his death in 1950, John Gill Lancaster was described as “one of the best-known electrical engineers in New Zealand… During the last 30 years he had taken a leading part in the development of electric power and lighting in the Dominion” (Evening Post, 12 October 1950).
John Charles North (1914–1979)
John North was a New Zealand born engineer. He joined the Hamilton Borough Council as a cadet in 1930 and went on to attend both Auckland and Canterbury University Colleges, graduating Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) in 1936.
John Carruthers (1836–1914)
Born in Inverness, Scotland, John Carruthers initially planned to follow in his father’s footsteps with a career in the newspaper industry. However, after travelling to Canada he found engineering to his liking and he worked on railway construction there, and in the United State of America, Russia and Mauritius. In 1866, he became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (becoming a member five years later) and married into an engineering family.
