Reg was always a driving, dedicated officer who thought and worked for the good of the Bureau. He played a major role in building up the Bureau facilities, particularly the radiosonde and radar networks and other meteorological instrumentation. He prepared functional design drawings, including wind finding and storm warning radar and microwave link equipment.

He visited areas all over Australia and the islands, carrying out site selections for meteorological establishments and discussed designs with works architects and engineers. He took part in the atomic bomb tests at Emu Field and Maralinga in SA and actually built the met establishment at Emu. He planned and participated in the first Moving Ships project to South Africa, computing the upper temperatures from radiosonde flights across the Indian Ocean to South Africa and back to New Zealand.

More recently he completed the design and supervised the new training annex at Broadmeadows, the new remote weather radar for Sydney (Letter Box site) and the new proposed radar building complex for Lord Howe Island.

Now, after a long and distinguished career, Reg has completed a new home on the west of a volcanic hill overlooking the Gold Coast. Two of his brothers, and two of his five children also live on the Coast. Reg and Lorna will also spend their time travelling around Europe.

Reg says he has one ambition now and that is to beat the Superannuation Board, and live as long as his old Director, Mr Timke, who is well over 90 and still going strong.

He has many "thank you"s for his most interesting career at the Bureau, particularly his old boss Bill Brann. "They threw away the mould after they made him. There'll never be another guy like him, and it was a pleasure to work for him", said Reg.

All his colleagues in the Bureau wish Reg and Lorna a long and happy retirement.

Bureau of Meteorology