PERSONAL. 
Mr. Hugh V. McKay, O.B.E., of Sunshine Harvester fame, and a 
member of the Power Alcohol Committee, is now on his way to the 
United States on a business trip. 
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Mr. C. O. G. Larcombe, B.Sc., Curator of the School of Mines, 
Kalgoorlie, was amongst those marooned in Melbourne during the 
influenza scare. 
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Mr. Stirling Taylor, General Manager of the Westralian -Farmers’ 
Co-operative Society, succeeds Mr. Leitch as Director of the Bureau 
of Commerce and Industry. The Institute and the Bureau are now 
more closely associated, as they now occupy the same building. 
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Mr. J. B. Henderson, F.I.C., Government Analyst, Brisbane, has 
been appointed Chairman of the Queensland State Committee of the 
Advisory Council, in place of Major Alex. J. Gibson, A.M.I.C.E., who 
has resigned, in order to enable him to take up important duties in 
connexion with the Broken Hill Proprietary Company’s works at New- 
castle. 
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_ Mr. I. H. Boas, M.Sce., of the Technical School, Perth, has left for 
Europe, America, and India, where he will investigate Forest Pro- 
ducts Laboratories. His report will form the basis of the Western Aus- 
tralian project. 
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Mr. E. N. Robinson has joined the Institute as Assistant Secretary. 
He has ‘been on the staff of the Argus, and was recently loaned to the 
Defence and Repatriation Departments for special work. He visited 
Denmark and the United States in 1911, with the view of reporting 
upon farmers’ co-operative schemes, for a syndicate of newspapers. 
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Mr. E. R. Pitt, B.A., of the Melbourne Public Library, has become 
Librarian of the Institute. In 1905 he was intrusted with the compila- 
tion of the “Catalogue of Current Periodicals received at the Public 
Library” (340 pages), which was favorably commented on by M. 
Eugene Morel, the great French librarian, who -said-it- should be a 
model for French bibliographers. Mr. Pitt has also been engaged for 
some years preparing the Victorian section of the Australian Catalogue 
of Scientific and Technical Periodicals for the Advisory Council of 
Science and Industry. ‘ 
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Mr. J. B. Trivett, an Associate Member of the Advisory Council, 
has retired from the position of Government Statistician of New South 
Wales after 41 years of public service. In 1912, Mr. Trivett accom- 
panied the ipresent Director of the Institute on a trip through Europe. 
Professor Maxwell Lefroy, on the recommendation of the Advisory 
Council, is being asked by the Commonwealth Government to recon- 
sider his refusal to return to Australia to study the sheep-fly and other 
pests. 
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