Garlick, Edward Thomas Mervyn (1883 - 1935)

Summary

Edward Garlick, MInstCE MIEAust CE LS, was one of the foremost sewerage engineers of Victoria, and a pioneer in the successful design and operation of provincial sewerage treatment plants in Victoria, particularly the schemes at Colac, Mildura and Echuca.

He was a municipal engineer and surveyor in private practice from about 1912. During the First World War, with Professor Martin, he founded the engineering school of the Gordon Technical College, and for many years lectured there.

He partnered with Scott and Furphy for the design of water supply and sewerage systems, from 1933 to 1935, trading together as Garlick, Scott and Furphy. After he became unwell, Garlick partnered with Charles Arthur Stewart AssocMInstCE, one of his senior employees, to form the consulting engineering firm Garlick and Stewart in 1935.

His work was recognised posthumously, when he was awarded the Warren Memorial Prize by the Institution of Engineers Australia, and when his technical papers were published by the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.

Details

Associated major clients and works:
* Winchelsea Waterworks Trust (1913);
* Colac Waterworks Trust (1919);
* Apollo Bay Waterworks Trust (1924);
* Colac Sewerage Authority (1923);
* Echuca Sewerage Authority (1927);
* Mildura Sewerage Authority (1928);
* Sewerage works, Central Flying School, Point Cook;

Chronology

1906

Education - Government Diploma Mining Engineering, Education Department

1906

Education - Associate Diploma Mining Engineering, Bendigo School of Mines (ABSM)

1906 - 1909

Career position - Engineer-in-charge, Chemical and civil engineer, Hampden Cloncurry Copper Mines Ltd., North Queensland

1907

Career event - Certificate of competency as Mine Manager, Queensland

1910 - 1911

Career position - Engineer, Victorian Railways [Design and maintenance of sewerage works, Mildura, Serviceton, Hamilton, Moe, Wahgunyah, Bacchus Marsh]

1911

Career event - Granted Certificate as Engineer of Water Supply, under Irrigation Act 1886 VIC

1911

Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC

1912

Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Engineer (CE), Local Government Act 1906 NSW. [Certificate No.232]

1912 - 1924

Career position - Engineer, Shire of Bannockburn

1913

Career event - Mining Surveyor Victoria

1913

Career event - Licensed Surveyor (LS), Registered under the Land Surveyors Act 1895

1916 - 1924

Career position - Lecturer in Civil engineering, Gordon Technical College / Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong [Introduced sanitary engineering into the course work]

29 Apr 1919

Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1920 - c. 1930

Career position - Consulting engineer, specialising in water supply and sewerage schemes

1924

Career event - Visited and worked in England and Germany to investigate sewerage treatment practice

1926

Career event - Overseas tour to investigate sewerage treatment practice in the United States of America

1926 - 1927

Career position - Commissioner, Royal Commission on Sanitation, Parliament of Victoria

11 Jan 1927

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1929

Career position - Gave evidence, Parliamentary Public Works Standing Committee, South Australia

1929

Career event - Fellow, Chemical Society, England

1932

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1933 - 1935

Career position - Partnered with Scott and Furphy, trading as Garlick, Scott and Furphy, Consulting engineers

1935

Career position - Partnered with C. A. Stewart, to form the firm Garlick and Stewart, Consulting engineers

1936

Award - Warren Memorial Prize 1933. Awarded posthumously

Related entries

Published resources

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary - E. T. M. Garlick', Australian Surveyor (1935), 445-446. Details
• 'Memoirs', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 277-280. Edward Thomas Mervyn Garlick MIEAust, p.280. Details
• Garlick, E. T. M., 'The sewerage works at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, and experience obtained in their operation', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1933), 270-282. Details
• Garlick, E. T. M., 'The sewerage works at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, and experience obtained in their operation [Corrigenda]', 7 (1935), 9. Details
• Gillespie, C. G.; Garlick, E. T. M., 'The sewerage works at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, and experience obtained in their operation [Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (1934), 452-. Details
• Hodgson, H. J. N.; Garlick, E. T. M., 'The sewerage works at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, and experience obtained in their operation [Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1933), 407. Details
• Hodgson, H. J. N.; Garlick, E. T. M., 'The sewerage works at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, and experience obtained in their operation [Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1933), 330-331. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Sixteenth Annual Report [1935]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 145-149. 'Prizes - Warren Memorial Prize (1933 papers) - Posthumous award to Mr E T M Garlick, MIEAust, Melbourne Division', p.146. Details

Parliamentary papers

• Royal Commission on Sanitation, Interim report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1926), 4 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22930/one. Details
• Royal Commission on Sanitation, Report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1927), 8 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22931/one. Details

Resources

• 'Sedimentation and anaerobic digestion of sewage-sludge at Colac, Echuca, and Mildura, Australia', Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/ijoti.1936.14871. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 15937, 1919', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details