Charles Spurgeon Beilby died suddenly while leaving his work with the Westport Coal Co., Denniston, New Zealand, to return home, on February 10th, 1982, at the age of 52.
He was Australian by birth, but received his professional training at the Otago School of Mines, N.Z., where for a time he officiated as lecturer, and graduated in 1900.
He was appointed assistant engineer to a hydraulic sluicing company at Newton Flat in 1901, and from the following year to 1925, with a break during the war, when he served as lieutenant in the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps in France, he was manager of various dredging and sluicing companies. In 1925 he was appointed mining engineer and surveyor of the Westport Coal Co., Denniston.
Mr. Beilby was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1913.
Vol. 42, Trans I.M.M. 1932-3, p. 609
