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His academic qualifications and ambition to become the Bureau's chief scientist were obvious but as Cornish (1996) and Lillywhite (1992) have observed his obsession with his own particular interests tended to obscure any wider visions he might have had.

Warren's appointment as acting Director obviously displeased Harry Treloar and their relationship was formal but barely cordial. When in 1943 I persuaded Warren to agree to the publication of the Tropical Weather Research Bulletin (TWRB) by the RAAF Command meteorological section in Brisbane, Harry, obviously not attracted by the idea, raised objections. At that time Warren arranged for me to visit Central Office for discussions of Harry's objections with Harry and other Central Office staff.

Harry, Pat Squires and Max Cassidy had begun research in frontal analysis in the early 1940s at the same time as I was finding that these techniques were lacking as an analysis tool in lower latitudes. A rivalry developed between AMFA in Melbourne and our RAAF Command tropical analysis section in Brisbane. Eventually Pat Squires and Henry Phillpot joined our analysis section in Brisbane late in 1944 or early in 1945 in the closing stages of the war.

The Warren/Treloar incompatibility led to the latter being given a special assignment to carry out seasonal forecasting research in the Meteorological Department of the University of Melbourne after the war. He also served as Divisional Meteorologist, NSW, from 1955 to 1958.

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