WOOL PUBLICITY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 5

WOOL PUBLICITY

« Australian Representative DR. ROSS’S APPOINTMENT Authoritative opinion in the wool trade and among graziers’ representatives in Sydney is that the appointment of Dr. I. Clunies Ross as Australia’s representative on the International Wool Publicity and Research Secretariat, London, is an excellent one. It was stated last week that his wide experience and technical training, his contacts in the United Kingdom and other countries, and bis eloquence as a public speaker made him peculiarly fitted for the position. Dr. Ross, who is now officer-in-charge of the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory, was educated at Newington College. He had a brilliant career at the university, and on graduation in the Faculty of Veterinary Science was awarded the Walter and Eliza Flail Travelling Fellowship, when he undertook post-graduate research work at the London School of Tropical Medicine and at Cambridge University. In 1926 he was appointed parasitologist of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and, two years later was awarded a doctorate by the senate of the University of Sydney , for . a thesis on the control of hydatids in Australia. Dr. Ross further augmented his studies by a visit to Japan in 1929, when he carried out research work at the Institute of Infectious Diseases at Tokio. On his return to Australia he was appointed to his present position at. the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory. In 1935 and 1936. at the request of the graziers’ associations in Australia, he conducted a sheep and wool survey of north-eastern Asia, including Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, and Japan. It is understood that his main activities in Great Britain in his new capacity will be to endeavour to increase the use of wool by means of research, by the practical application of the results of technical investigations, and by moans of an intensive publicity campaign. He expects to take up his duties in England as soon after July 1 as possible.