John Bagot Labatt
John Bagot Labatt (1861- )
1922 M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.E., Australia, Deputy-Chairman, South Australian Harbours Bd.; b. 1861; s. of G. A. Labatt, B.A., Barrister-at-Law. Ed. Saint Peter's College, Adelaide. Training: Dockyard, Port Adelaide. Served Articles to Engr. for Harbours and Jetties; subsequently under Engr.-in-Chief, Adelaide, as Draughtsman and Eng. Asst., carrying out the designing and supervising Construction of numerous Harbour Works; Interstate Officer to Report on Utilization of the Waters of the River Murray, 1905; Asst. Engr., Harbours and Jetties, 1906; Deputy-Ch., S.A. Harbours Bd. as Eng. Member, 1914, with charge of the Design and Construction of all Harbour and Jetty Works throughout the State of S. Australia, 1,800 miles of coast line. Address: South Australian Harbours Board, Victoria Square, Adelaide.