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and became Master in Hngineering in 1882. He occupied 
the position of borough engineer to the Woollahra Municipal 
Council for eleven years, after which he obtained an 
appointment in the Public Works Department of this State, 
and was connected especially with the Tramway Construc- 
tion Branch. Mr. Haycroft was a diligent attendant at 
the meetings of the Royal Society and especially at those 
of the Hngineering Section of which for several years he 
was a member of committee. His services in the Depart- 
ment of Works were highly appreciated, and he died much 
regretted by those with whom he came into intimate 
contact. 
Mr. Walter A. Smith, ». inst. c.B., who was one of the best 
known and most popular officers in the Public Works 
Department, received his death by falling during a visit of 
inspection from the staircase leading up to the tower on 
Pyrmont Bridge. Mr. Smith was 48 years of age, and had 
been an officer of the Works Department for twenty-five 
years. For several years he was Metropolitan Hngineer in 
the Roads Branch, but on the inception of the Local 
Government Act he was placed in charge of operations at 
Barren Jack Dam. Harly in this year, however, he returned 
to Sydney to take up his old post. Mr. Smith’s career was 
one in which ability and high character were prominent 
and he leaves an irreproachable record behind him. 
Mr. Henry Alfred Lenehan died at the age of 65 years. 
He was appointed assistant at the Sydney Observatory in 
1870, he was Acting Government Astronomer during the 
illness and retirement of the late Mr. Russell, and was 
recently appointed Government Astronomer. Mr. Lenehan 
was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He had 
the interest of our Society always at heart. He became 
a member in 1874, has been a member of council for the 
last fourteen years, and was President from 1905-6, since 
C—May 6, 1908. 
