XCII. DISCOSSION. 
case, the amount of information now collected in his recent. 
address will constitute a permanent record in connection 
with the most important public service in which the metro- 
politan community is interested—its water supply. 
Mr. J. H. CARDEW said, our late Chairman, in choosing 
the subject of the water supply of Sydney for his annual 
address, could not have selected one more appropriate to. 
the occasion, or of greater interest to his hearers. So 
many years of his life have been devoted to the accomplish- 
ment of this great work, from its very inception until now, 
that he is the person best fitted to perform the task of 
recording its successive stages, and we may congratulate 
him upon compiling not only an able and instructive address. 
but the best history extant of the undertaking, and a valu- 
able contribution to the Society’s Journal. The first part 
is ofan historic character, but the latter part affords plenty 
of matter for discussion. The allusion to the great services. 
of the late Mr. E. O. Moriarty wasa graceful and pathetic 
tribute to the genius of an old chief, it is indeed sad to 
think that the services of this public officer in connection 
with the water supply of Sydney should be almost totally 
forgotten and not even recorded on any part of the works 
that his genius evolved, and it is a true commentary on the 
fate of most engineers in the Public Service. If this great. 
work had been designed and carried out by an independent. 
engineer from abroad, it would have brought him great. 
fame and much emolument, but ‘‘ a prophet is not without. 
honour except in his own country.’’ Surely it is not too 
late even now to erect on the works, some memorial of 
their eminent designer. With regard to the “run off”’ from 
the catchment area of the Cataract in connection with the 
behaviour of the reservoir, it appears to me that 40% is 
rather a high percentage of the rainfall to rely upon. The 
percentage discharged from other catchments is not nearly 
