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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Architects And Engineers

Architects And Engineers.

Daniel, Peter Francis, F.G.S. (Lond.), M.F.I.M.E. (Eng.), M.M. (N.Z.), Consulting Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, Greymouth, Specialties: Reports, Lode and Hydraulic Mining. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. P.O. Box 77. Telegraphic address, “Daniel, Greymouth.” Codes, Moreing and Neal, A.B.C., Universal Mining. Mr. Daniel, who is a leading mining authority, was born at Ballarat in 1860, and is a son of the late Mr. James Daniel, mine owner of Victoria. In 1870 (after his father's death) he came to New Zealand. He was educated at the Otago University, studied at the School of Mines, and served his engineering articles with the firm of Davidson and Conyers of Dunedin. He then followed practical mining and holds the New Zealand Government mine manager's seven years' service certificate. His mining experience is very extensive, and his reports upon mining properties are of exceptional value. During 1895 he examined the whole of the mining reserves of the West Coast in connection with the Midland Railway Arbitration case. He has also undertaken the floating of many large properties with considerable success. He is the New Zealand representative of Dr. John Storer, Reginald A. F. Murray, and Lawrence Elson, the eminent Australian scientists and mining specialists. In social life Mr. Daniel is exceedingly popular.
Mr. James Bennie , formerly an Architect, Artist, and Draughtsman, Mackay Street, Greymouuth, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the year 1874, and is a son of the late Mr. James Bennie, of Brunnerton, and at one time an engineer and a mine manager in the south of Scotland. He came out to New Zealand with his parents by the ship “Timaru,” in 1880, and finished his education in the Working Men's College, Melbourne, where he also studied under Mr. Thomas Searell, the well known Melbourne architect. During the seven years that Mr. Bennie studied under this gentleman he was entrusted with the practical work of the plans and specifications for the Hobart Exhibition, in connection with which he was generally praised as a rising artist, and obtained two gold medals for pen and ink work and water colours. On settling on the West Coast, Mr. Bennie established himself in business as an architectural artist and teacher of painting. Mr. Bennie submitted designs to the postal authorities in Wellington for the new page 568 postage stamps, and although, owing to a slight error in the lettering, they were not accepted, they were praised
Mr. J. Bennie.

Mr. J. Bennie.

by the department for their neatness and their delicate colouring. He now (1906) practises his profession in Wellington.
Mr. H. W. Young , sometime a Civil and Mining Engineer, Authorised, Lieensed
The late Mr. H. W. Young.

The late Mr. H. W. Young.

and Registered Mining Surveyor, and Architect, at Greymouth, was engineer for a number of mining companies, including the Croesus (Paparoa) Gold Mining Company, the Taipo, Waiwhere and Pactolus Sluicing Companies, and other important updertakings. Engaged on engincering and mining works on the West Coast since its earliest days, he and his brother (Mr. R. A. Young) established the firm of Young Brothers, at Greymouth in the year 1873, and for many years carried on a very extensive practice. They designed, carried out, and were sole engineers for the works of the Westport Colliery Company at Westport. These works rank amongst the foremost engineering works in New Zealand, and at the time of their construction, they were of greater magnitude than any other colonial works of similar character. In 1886, Mr. C. Napier Bell, the Midland Railway Company's chief engineer resident in the colony, engaged Mr. H. W. Young as his chief assistant engineer, and after Mr. Napier Bell's retirement Mr. Young remained as chief assistant to the engineer-in-chief, the late Mr. Robert Wilson, and was acting chief enginear during Mr. Wilson's absence from New Zealand. Mr. Young was an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, member of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, of the Society of Architects, and of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. He died some time ago.