WCC City Engineer - Andrew James Paterson

Andrew Paterson (c.1870 - 1932) joined the staff of the Wellington City Council 1905 as assistant engineer and was City Engineer from 1923 to 1926. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but moved to Australia where he worked as an engineer in Queensland and New South Wales. In 1905 he moved to Wellington and was involved in the construction of the “Mornington-Vogeltown road” and the extensive earthworks to create Anderson Park. He moved to Gisborne to take up the position of Borough Engineer before returning to Wellington as Assistant City Engineer under W H Morton. On Morton’s death in 1923, Paterson became City Engineer in the post-war years “when a heavy accumulation of deferred work had to be faced”. He resigned from the WCC in 1926 and began his own private practice as an engineer.

Image: Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932

Sources:

MR. A. J. PATERSON Evening Post, 16 June 1932, Page 13