ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



By S. H. BARRACLOUGH, B.E., M.M.E , Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 



Chairman of the Engineering Section. 



[Delivered to the Engineering Section of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, 

 27th July, 1905.'] 



SUMMARY. 



Introductory — Progress of Section — Choice of a Subject for 

 Address — Brief review of the past three or four years — 

 Directions of engineering progress — Progress of educational 

 reform — Commissioners' reports — Sir P. N. Russell's second 

 gift to the University of Sydney — P. N. Russell Scholarships 

 — A School of Architecture — Surveying — Reorganisation 

 of the P. 1ST. Russell School of Engineering — Future needs — 

 Our position in relation to others — Extraordinary activity in 

 other countries — Correspondence Schools — The late Dr. R. H. 

 Thurston and the Sibley College of Engineering — American 

 progress — The case of Germany — Japan's achievement — The 

 virtue of war — "Sport for sport's sake " — The art of invention 

 — National efficiency — The menace to England — The position 

 of Australia — The urgent necessity for national training — 

 Rational v. empirical methods in industry — Types of labour 

 — Primary and secondary industries — Agricultural education 

 — Education not a luxury — The limits of prudent expenditure 

 — The Morill Land Act in America — The urgency of the 

 question — Conclusion. 



Before vacating the Chair custom demands that I occupy 

 your attention for a short time with some remarks of a 

 general nature appropriate to the occasion. In the first 

 place, I have to thank you most sincerely for the privilege 

 of being allowed to serve the Engineering Section for a 

 second year of office. It is needless to state that I do not 



