Australian Post

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 18

Australian Post

Professor J. R. Burton, head J of the department of '< agricultural engineering % and director of the Agri- ■ cultural Engineering In- | stitute at Lincoln College | has been appointed | foundation professor of $ natural resources at the | University of New Eng- | land, Armidale New | South Wales. He will head the newly- ji formed School of Natural | Resources, the first in an | Australian university | Professor Burton is ex- * pected to take up his ® appointment on January j Professor Burton was born in I Gulargambone, New! South Wales, and was I educated at Scotch Col- I lege, Launceston, Tas- | mania, and Canterbury High School, Sydney. He graduated bachelor of civil engineering from the University of Sydney in 1951. After completing his degree he worked for four years for the New South Wales Public Works Depart- j ment. As a soil engineer, he was engaged on the construction of three - earth dams, including the 400 ft high Eucurnbene dam on the Snowy Mountains power and irrigation scheme. Professor Burton joined the staff of the University of New South Wales as a r lecturer in civil engineer- 1 ing in 1954. t He was engaged in research 1 into the development of f

water resources at the University of Los Angeles in California in 1960-61 as a Fulbright research scholar. On his return he was made a senior lecturer. Professor Burton was appointed to Lincoln Lincoln College in 1964.