The Australian journal of physiotherapy oration: "go west, young man"

Years ago, I, and many of my colleagues, were lured to a lecture to be given by a former President of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, Sir Frank Kingsley Norris, mainly because it bore the engaging title of "Why Shoot a Butler". It was in fact, until "The Man that Never Was", the greatest hoax of our time. Sir Kingsley merely introduced the real speaker of the evening, a senior police officer, who proceeded to entertain us with an enthralling account of the methods used to identify and correlate bullets and shells to particular pistols. The general theme of the evening was, that if you must murder someone, don't shoot them because the bullets and shells, if recovered, can be just as incriminating as fingerprints. To this day, I cannot remember whether it was the butler, the parlour maid or the young master who was shot - in any event it didn't matter. As on that occasion, the title of this address, like the "Flowers that Bloom in the Spring", has nothing to do with the case - or hardly anything.