XXII. J. HAYDON CARDEW. 



the inducement here offered to the engineer with such a 

 wide scope of municipal activities constitutes a career 

 worthy of the greatest intellects or attainments. 



When municipal councils rise to the conception of their 

 true position in the economy of Australiau life, when they 

 have learned to act and stand alone, independently of the 

 Government, when they have reached such a state of 

 maturity that they will seek to have control of the services 

 I have indicated, then the demand for engineers will 

 be ever increasing, and our University will be full of 

 students preparing themselves for future duties in their 

 own land, instead of drifting away, after graduating, to 

 such out-of-the-way places as the Malay States. 



We have magnificent material in the intellect of our 

 Australian youths for training into high-class engineers,, 

 we have a splendidly endowed University capable of 

 affording that training; in fact every facility for producing 

 Australian-born engineers, and yet, owing to the limited 

 sphere and lack of inducement, how few young Australians 

 adopt civil engineering as their profession. In the 

 near future, as already pointed out, Australia will need 

 many engineers for the proper development of its huge 

 territory, and for the solution of other Australian problems. 

 Where are they to come from? Are we to train our own 

 men, or are we to continue importing from abroad? 



The Problem of a Greater Sydney is still before us under 

 the modern and inept cognomen of city extension. "The 

 Sydney Municipalities Consolidation" would better express 

 the nature of the work to be done. Efficiency and economy 

 both demand some change from the present system, and 

 the time for pause has long since passed away. In view 

 of the plague having established itself firmly within our 

 borders, any further delay will be dangerous to our well 



