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ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION. 
An Engineering Standards Association 
for Australia. 
An account has already been given in this Journal of the steps 
which had been taken by the Institute up to August, 1919, towards in- 
troducing a systematic scheme for Engineering Standardization in the 
Commonwealth, and in the pamphlet which has been published by the 
Institute on this subject an outline of a scheme of organization for an 
Australian Engineering Standards Association was given. This proposal 
has now been considered and approved by a committee appointed by 
the Council of the New Institution of Engineers of Australia, and as 
a result agreement has been reached between the Institution of En- 
gineers and the Institute of Science and Industry for the constitution 
of a Main Committee, the general functions of which will be as 
follows :— 
(a) To decide what standardization work shall be undertaken. 
(b) To appoint the members of the Sectional Committees to 
which the work of preparing the specifications will be 
intrusted. 
(c) To arrange for the carrying out of research work on the 
recommendation of the Sectional Committees. 
(d) To receive and pass the reports and specifications of the 
Sectional Committees. 
(e) To control finance. 
(f) To arrange for publication of the specifications. 
(g) To keep in touch with Engineering Standards Associations in 
other countries and with the Institute of Science and 
Industry. ; 
(h) To control the secretarial staff of the Association. 
It has been decided that a recommendation shall be made that the 
Main Committee be appointed by the Commonwealth Government, the 
members to be nominated as follows :— 
(a) Six members to be nominated by the Institution of Engineers 
of Australia. 
(b) One member, who is to be a fully qualified engineer, to be 
nominated by each of the State Governments. 
(c) Three members, one of whom shall be Chairman, to be 
nominated by the Institute of Science and Industry. 
(d) The Main Committee shall have power either to nominate 
members to be co-opted on account of their eminence in 
the engineering profession, or to recommend that other 
Engineering Associations and Societies in Australia be 
invited to nominate representatives for appointment. 
The question as to the place at which the Standards Association 
shall have its head-quarters presented some difficulty, but it has been 
provisionally agreed that the head offices of the Association shall be 
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