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

Summary

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).

Details

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."

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Books

• Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 135-155 (Chapter 7), 174-175. Details