INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
By S. H. BARRACLOUGH, B.E., M.M.E., Assoc. M. Inst. C.B., 
Chairman of the Section. 
[Delivered to the Engineering Section of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, 
July 20, 1903. | 
GENTLEMEN,—AsS this is the first meeting of the Hngineer- 
ing Section since the election of the new committee, I take 
the occasion to thank you most sincerely for the high honour 
you have done me in electing me to preside over the Section 
during the present session. Election to such a position, 
although involving considerable responsibility and demand- 
ing a fair expenditure of time and labour, can only be 
regarded as a privilege, and I am glad of the opportunity 
of expressing My warm appreciation of this token of your 
confidence and kindly esteem. 
My satisfaction is distinctly enhanced by the fact that, 
for the present session, circumstances have relieved me of 
the necessity of imposing upon you the customary address 
from the Chair. The reasons for the postponement of the 
address till the next session are fairly obvious from the 
business paper which is before you. I would do nothing to 
lessen the importance or detract from the dignity of the 
post, but your committee agreed with me that, in view of 
the large number of papers to be presented at this session, 
all of them more or less bearing on one topic, it would be 
more judicious to have the Chairman’s Address at the 
October Session, particularly as my remarks will be more 
germane to the subject of “‘Technical and Industrial 
Education in Australia,’’ which it is proposed to discuss at 
that session, than to that now before you. 
I have, in the next place, to extend a cordial welcome to 
the representatives of kindred associations and to other 
1—July 20, 1903. 
