Author talk:John Powers Smith
John Powers Smith
editJ Smith drilling, has a son called C Smith (there is a C Smith who is a draper in Greymouth at this time)
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WCT19070412.2.16
This article about his paper calls him S P Smith
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19071114.2.3
"In 1908 J. P. Smith described a series of lamprophyric rocks, found in pleistocene gravels, interpreted as having i been derived from the Hohonu Range."
https://theses.otagogeology.org.nz/files/original/6a8b0070628f08598b4a77398dbc000c.pdf
1903: GOLD-SAVING ON DREDGES. By J. P. Smith, M.A.Inst.M.E., Dunedin. In a paper on the above subject, published in the annual report for 1900,1 stated that " among the first improvements that will be made in the gold-saving appliances in use on dredges will be the addition to every dredge of a distributer. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/AJHR1903-I.2.1.4.3
1903 Electoral Roll for Dunedin: John Powers Smith, Rattray Street, Dunedin, mining engineer
CONFIRMED: Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry has J P Smith, MA, Inst ME, of Rattray Street, on page 290: https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d30-d5.html