Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Presidential address [1928]
- In
- Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 8, Institution of Engineers Australia, Sydney, NSW, 1927, pp. xxxvii-lxii
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.297899239899988
- Description
Retiring President's address by Sir John Butters, CMG MBE MIEAust, to the eighth Annual General Meeting of The Institution of Engineers, Australia. (Canberra, F.C.T., 9th February, 1928.)
- Abstract
I should like to take this opportunity, the first I have had of addressing members of the Institution as a whole, of expressing my deep appreciation of the honour which the Institution paid me in electing me President for this year. It is undoubtedly a very great honour to be elected to the presidency of a great professional institution such as that to which we have the honour to belong, and the honour to serve, and I appreciate all that is involved in the presidency more than I can say. I do not flatter myself that my election to that office was as a result of any very special merit, but rather as a result of the singularly happy coincidence that I came into the category of eligibles during the year in which the National Capital was to be established at Canberra in Federal Territory; and I should like to congratulate the Institution on the fact that it has the honour of being the first national institution to hold its annual conference at the National Capital since the establishment of the Seat of Government there. It can, I think, safely be said that the bulk of the work involved in the construction of the city has been that carried out under the direction of members of the engineering profession, and that of itself adds a great deal to the interest of this occasion and its appropriateness.