Early Years in the Bureau
Introduction
My Early Years in the Bureau of Meteorology
The Formation of the Frosterley Club
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Treloar's lectures were rather scrappy. He was inclined to write rather cryptic things on the blackboard in the Horticultural Hall and talked to the blackboard rather than to us. He had compiled some interesting notes. Among other things his notes speculated on the fate of the Southern Cloud which was lost on a flight between Sydney and Melbourne. Its wreckage was discovered about 50 years later in the Snowy Mountains near Tumut. Towards the end of our course Fritz Loewe joined our team of lecturers. His command of spoken English was not good but he was quite obviously the most interesting and the most competent lecturer of all. At the end of the course Loewe's exams were conducted orally, one student at a time, for a period of half an hour. Other exams in the practical work, chart drawing etc were held in the first week of November.
At this time the forecasting offices at the various aerodromes (Archerfield, Mascot, Parafield and Maylands) were not ready for occupation by the officers who had been on the earlier forecasting course that had ended in June. These people, such as Reg Shinkfleld, Arthur White and Jack Nance, were working in their local Divisional Offices. Arthur White was acting second-in-charge to David Mares in the Sydney Divisional Office, relieving Barney Newman who had come down to conduct the course. Barney Newman was required to return to Sydney when Arthur White took up residence at Mascot. Newman's place as course supervisor was taken by H. E. Banfield, who came from Brisbane where he was second-in-charge to the Divisional Meteorologist A. S. Richards.
People in Bright Sparcs - Banfield, Henry Evans; Hogan, John (Doc); Lillywhite, John Wilson; Loewe, Fritz; Mares, David John; Newman, Bernard William (Bernie); Richards, Alfred Stanley (Stan); Treloar, Harry Mayne; White, Arthur Charles
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