PERSONAL. 
Personal. 
The Hon. W. Massy Greene, M/P., whose portrait appears in this 
issue, is Ministerial head of the Institute of Science and Industry. 
Although his Parliamentary career has not been a particularly long one, 
he having entered polities as member for Richmond (New South Wales) 
at the general election in 1910, he has already been called upon to fill 
several. important positions. Prior to assuming ministerial office he 
acted, with conspicuous success, as whip |to the Liberal Opposition, be- 
coming later a strong supporter of the Hughes-Cook National coalition. 
In March, 1918, he was made an assistant minister, specially in charge 
of matters relating to price-fixing. The same year he was appointed 
a member of the Board of Trade, and in January of this year gained full 
ministerial rank, being given the portfolio of Minister for Trade and 
‘Customs. 
Mr. Massy Greene’s personal interests are centered in the advance- 
ment of rural industries. Driven to the country in search of health, 
after a few years’ experience of a banking institution, he settled in the 
north coast of New South Wales. Thére he had literally to carve a 
home for himself out of the virgin forest, but his labours were rewarded 
by the enhancement of the value of the land, and the speedy development 
of the district into one of the most prosperous dairying centres in 
Australia. His intimate knowledge of the dairying industry has made 
him a strong advocate of the more efficient organization of producers. He 
recently outlined a scheme aiming at the co-operative control of dairy 
produce upon a Federal basis which would improve the position of the 
dairy farmers, and induce the expansion of an industry whose ultimate 
value to Australia cannot yet be estimated. That scheme is now under 
the consideration of the dairy farmers of Australia. That portion of 
the work of the Institute which has special application to rural interests 
-always finds in Mr. Greene a keen though sympathetic critic. 
For some time Mr. Edward S. Simpson, of the Geological Depart- 
anent, Perth, Western Australia, has been doing valuable work for the 
Institute in connexion with clay investigations. At the annual com 
mencement of the University of Western Australia recently, the degree 
of Doctor of Science was conferred on Mr. Simpson. .Dr. Simpson 
was educated at the Sydney Grammar School, and after a distinguished 
career at the University of Sydney, where he was one of the -first to 
obtain the degree of Bachelor of Engineering, received an appointment 
on the staff of the Mount Morgan G. M. Company, Queensland. In 
1897 he was appointed assayer and mineralogist to the Geological 
Survey of Western Australia, and: has held that position ever since. 
He has spent much time on original research work in connexion with - 
the many rarer minerals which from time to time have been found in the 
Western State, and is recognised as an-authority on these matters, not 
only all over the Commonwealth, but also in many of the older countries 
of the world. Much of his time lately has been oceupied with economic 
‘mineralogy, and his success in this direction has been instrumental in 
-establishing some most important industries in and around Perth: 
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