From "CSIRO research for Australia" (1962):

"The animal geneticists have their headquarters in Sydney and have taken over the sheep breeding station 'Gilruth Plains', the cattle breeding station near Rockhampton, the Badgery's Creek property and the Poultry Research Centre at Werribee. The Division is mainly concerned with two problems of the utmost importance to the future development of our animal industries. Firstly, they aim to develop more efficient methods of selection for economic characters including improved wool production. Secondly, they are studying characters of importance in the adaptation of cattle to the hot climates of northern Australia. Their aim is not to produce a new breed, but rather to identify the genetic characters which should be singled out for future stud). and which should form a basis for selection for use by the beef industry. As a means of speeding up genetic studies, the poultry breeding research was undertaken after the war, and a number of ways of improving poultry breeding have come out of the main stream of fundamental work."