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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Event created 2024-12-07 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-04-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007552b.htm event Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925 AACR2 30 May 1925 1 June 1925 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia This conference regarding the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry was held at the offices of the Institute, in Melbourne, on 30 May and 1 June 1925. The members of the conference with entries in this encyclopedia are listed below. Others were: President - The Right Hon. S. M. Bruce, P.C., M.C., M.P., Prime Minister; Vice Peesident Sentor the Hon. R.V. Wilson, Minister for Markets and Migration; Mr G. Valder, Under-Secretary and Director, Department of Agriculture, N.S.W. (representing New South Wales); Mr Edwin H. Flack, Breeder of Friesian Stud Stock, William Street, Melbourne (representing Victoria); Mr C.S. Nathan, Managing Director, Chas Atkins & Co., Perth (representing Western Australia).

Abstract from Chapter 7, 'The Conference of 1925 to the passing of the 1926 Act' Currie and Graham (1966):

"The new Bill to amend the Institute of Science and Industry Act 1920 was prepared after the reports from the conference of 1925 and a report from Sir Frank Heath had been studied by the newly appointed Executive Committee: G. A. Julius, W. J. Newbigin and Professor A. C. D. Rivett. The Bill passed all stages in the House within a month and was assented to 23 June 1926. This Act established the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The first meeting of the Council was opened by the Prime Minister, S. M. Bruce, on 22 June 1926."

 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Commonwealth of Australia (1926 - 1949) Agar, Wilfred Eade (1882 - 1951)

Representative of Victoria

 Cameron, Samuel Sherwen (1866 - 1933)

Representative of Victoria

 Wainwright, William Edward (1873 - 1959)

Representative of Victoria

 Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875 - 1953)

Representative of Victoria

 Monash, John (1865 - 1931)

Representative of Victoria

 Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874 - 1941)

Representative of Victoria

 Knibbs, George Handley (1858 - 1929)

Representative of Victoria

 Lightfoot, Gerald (1877 - 1966)

Representative of Victoria

 Clapp, Harold Winthrop (1875 - 1952)

Representative of Victoria

 Woodruff, Harold Addison (1877 - 1966)

Representative of Victoria

 Horwood, Edward James

Representative of Victoria

 Lane-Poole, Charles Edward (1885 - 1970)

Representative of Victoria

 Grimwade, Wilfrid Russell (1879 - 1955)

Representative of Victoria

 CSIR Council, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1926 - 1949) Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937)

Representative of Victoria

 Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916 Watt, Robert Dickie (1881 - 1965)

Representative of New South Wales

 Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)

Representative of New South Wales

 Cambage, Richard Hind (1859 - 1928)

Representative of New South Wales

 Goddard, Ernest James (1883 - 1948)

Representative of Queensland

 Richardson, Arnold Edwin Victor (1883 - 1949)

Representative of South Australia

 Perkins, Arthur James (1871 - 1944)

Representative of South Australia

 Ross, Alexander David (1883 - 1966)

Representative of Western Australia

 Gepp, Herbert William (1877 - 1954)

Representative of Tasmania

 MacKinnon, Ewen

Secretary with G. A. Cook

 Cook, George Alfred (1892? - 1958)

Secretary with E. MacKinnon

 Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1920 - 1926) Chapman, Henry George (1879 - 1934)

Representative of New South Wales

 Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)

Representative of Queensland

 'Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925 Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Surprise and Enterprise: Fifty Years of Science for Australia: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) McKay, Andrew Surprise and Enterprise: Fifty Years of Science for Australia: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Melbourne CSIRO 1976 Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966