SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
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Australia Self-Contained. 
NEW INDUSTRIES. WAR LESSONS. 
By H. W. GEPP.* 
(II.) 
In the previous article I grouped the factors which must operate 
towards the successful development in young countries of new industries 
under eleven headings— 
(1) Natural resources. 
(2) Politics. 
(3) Finance. 
(4) Education. 
(5) Organization. 
(6) Relations between labour, management, and capital. 
(7) Relations between different operation companies. 
(8) National efficiency, in its broadest sense, for the attain- 
ment of which health and contentment are essential. 
(9) Maintenance of the ethical as opposed to the materialistic 
attitude of mind. 
(10) Development of the spirit of industrial citizenship. 
(11) Recognition by the country of the value of big companies 
or corporations when properly controlled. 
Having endeavoured to illustrate the relation of the first four of 
these principles to the main subject, I was proceeding to outline a basis 
of organization which should be adopted in inaugurating a new 
industry. I pointed out that a feature of the scheme of organization 
must be special attention to research work, and that part of the equip- 
ment must be a special department which should conduct investigations 
in consultation with the chief operating men, in so far as the research 
is related to the operating. 
Another link-in the chain of organization must be the adoption of 
means to indicate the relation of the various members of the staff to 
one another. A good idea is to set this out in the form of a kind of 
genealogical tree on a large-scale blue print, so that all members know 
to whom they are responsible and to whom to report. So as to avoid 
too much “red tape,” which a rigid organization sometimes produces. 
it is advisable to form what is known as a “ general staff,” to which 
various members of the regular staff, in view of their special knowledge. 
are appointed. At general staff meetings, which should be held about once 
~* General Manager of the Electrolytic Zine Company of Australasia Proprietary Limited, and a 
member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council of Science and Industry. 
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