Latterly, Walter has been a member of joint DCA-Bureau committees which have been investigating the meteorological aspects of the introduction of sonic aircraft to Australia.

Even though he has retired, Walter has still not severed his connections with aviation meteorology. He has been busy organising CAeM's scientific and technical conference to be held in London later in the year and over .which he will preside. He is also preparing his report to WMO's Executive Committee on his term of office as president of the Commission. He will personally present the report in Geneva.

In the early 1920s Walter Dwyer began studying law in Perth as an external student of the London University College (there was no law faculty at the University of W.A. in those days) but later turned to his first love—engineering and science. He gained his Diploma of Civil Engineering but then passed a P.S.B. examination which led to him remaining with the Bureau.

Walter and Mrs Dwyer left on January 3rd on a world trip that will take them about 12 months. And after having flown many thousands of miles since his first plane trip in 1930, Walter is travelling by ship.

His many friends at the Bureau wish him a sincere bon voyage, a wonderful trip, a safe return and a long and pleasant retirement. At a farewell ceremony in the conference room at Peters House, Walter was presented with a silver candelabra and a travelling case.

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