Early Years in the Bureau
Introduction
My Early Years in the Bureau of Meteorology
The Formation of the Frosterley Club
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I duly sent in my application and in my innocence, not knowing anything about Public Service ways, I expected to have some sort of indication within two or three weeks. But it was many more weeks than that when a friend of mine, who was a Public Servant, told me my name had appeared in the Commonwealth Gazette, along with ten or twelve who had been successful in their applications to join the course. This was confirmed from Melbourne a week or two later when I was asked to visit the Commonwealth Medical Officer in Adelaide for an examination. I was also given a questionnaire which I was required to answer and take to the Public Service Inspector's Office in Adelaide where I would be interviewed by the Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr W. S. Watt. About mid-July I was told by letter from Melbourne to report to the Central Weather Bureau as soon as convenient. Being completely unused to Public Service procedures and being jobless apart from part-time demonstrating at the Physics Department of the University, I caught the train to Melbourne expecting the training to start almost immediately and reported to the Central Weather Bureau on the corner of Victoria and Drummond Streets at about 10.30 am on Monday 26 July, only to be told by a Clerk, who I later learned was a Mr Jebb, that I was too late to sign-on that day. The express from Adelaide did not arrive in Melbourne until after 10.00 am in those days. I was told to came back the next day at or before 8.45 am and they would sign me on. This I duly did and Mr Watt very quickly put me in the hands of a very tall man, Mr Timcke, who was asked to shepherd me around the various offices in the Drummond Street building.
People in Bright Sparcs - Hogan, John; Lillywhite, John Wilson; Timcke, Edward Waldemar; Watt, William Shand
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