president's address. — SECTION H. 205 



SECTION H. ^.'''"V*^^i5y^v 



ENGINEERING 

 AND ARCHITECTURE. 





ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT : 



Maurice E. Kernot, M.Inst.C.E., M. Am. Soc. C.E., 

 M.I.E.Aust., etc., 



Chief Engineer for Railway Construction, Victoria, Australia. 



May I express to you- a hearty welccme to this and the follow- 

 ing meetings of Section H, and the hope that in the papers 

 to be read and the discussions we shall find much of value to our- 

 selves and others, much of interest, and much to increase our 

 appreciation of each other's work. 



May I also express my high sense of the honour that has been 

 shown to me by my selection for the office of President of this 

 section . 



We are met together after the lapse of eight years, during 

 which has occurred the greatest war in history, with momentous 

 effects, which in the aftermath through which we are now passing 

 it is difficult to realize and understand. With the return to 

 peace we are having brought home to us the cost of war. and 

 great social, economic, and political changes are forcing them- 

 selves on us, and largely affecting our work and our position in 

 the community. 



It is good that we should meet together and in discussion 

 broaden our horizons, and gain stimulus and fresh views of the 

 problems that confront ourselves and our professions. Our best 

 hope is in the scientific treatment of those problems, the use of 

 scientific methods, the application of the latest scientific knowledge 

 to' the works we carry out, and in thei development of scientific 

 principles and practice for the benefit of others as well as our- 

 selves. 



"The old order changeth giving place to new." and we must 

 change with it, and find and adopt the new order, or be left be- 

 hind in the march of the world's progress. 



