The Western Australian Divisional Office

In her story of the Perth Divisional Office, Margaret Wallace tells that when she joined the office in 1929 it was located in the basement of a building in St. George's Terrace and consisted of one large room with a small room adjoining. She remembered that the only weather charts prepared daily were for 9 am and 3 pm. This practice continued in all the Divisional Offices until 1939 when aerodrome and Divisional Offices began making more frequent observations.

Curlewis retired in 1937 and was succeeded by A. G. Akeroyd, who had worked in Central Office in Melbourne and who is the subject of a rather humorous story in Allan Cornish's Metarch Papers No 8 (1996). A. G. Akeroyd collapsed and died in March 1948 on his way to the office. John Hogan (1912–1978) acted as Deputy Director until a new Deputy Director was appointed.

Now that a second John Hogan with the single initial J. has been introduced, the need to insert dates of birth and death to differentiate them is apparent. John Hogan (1912–1978) was popularly referred to as 'Doc' in the Bureau, the nickname arising from his tendency to supervise the care of any injured player in his footballing days at Kalgoorlie High School.

Following the death of Akeroyd, W. A. Dwyer was promoted to the position of Deputy Director, Perth, but the promotion was upset by a successful appeal by G. W. Mackey, who served in that position until his retirement in 1971.

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