In January 1937 an advertisement appeared in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' (and no doubt other metropolitan papers in all capital cities) for Science Graduates under 24 with maths and physics as major subjects to enrol for training in meteorology (and specifically in forecasting for aviation) at the Central Weather Bureau, Melbourne. Applicants were required to write to the Commonwealth Meteorologist. As I had graduated in December 1936 with maths and physics as my major subjects I armed myself with references from the two professors, J. R. Wilton, mathematics and Kerr Grant, physics. Incidentally I had worked in the Physics Department as a Lab Assistant in 1935 and 1936. I had done some years of geology under Douglas Mawson. Mawson's lecture notes started off with a couple of chapters on meteorology and climatology, as did some of the geology lectures by Cecil Madigan who lived near us, and had aroused my interest in geology (and hence, as a sideline, in meteorology).

John Lillywhite, Assistant Director (Services) 1958–1974.

Bureau of Meteorology