SIR GEORGE JULIUS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21793, 7 May 1934, Page 11

SIR GEORGE JULIUS

ONEROUS POSITION AUSTRALIAN APPOINTMENT The Premier of New South Wales. Mr. Stevens, announced recently that his Government intended to appoint an Employment Trust, a public body which would be authorised to raise loans up to £2,000,000 for works in relief of unemployment. It will be a statutory body, consisting mainly of commercial men, and one of its chief functions will be to decide on the suitability of proposed works on which the loan money may be expended As an example of the way in which this Employment Trust will operate, Mr. Stevens stated that he has completed arrangements with some of the Broken Hill mining companies for a loan of £125,000 from the trust at 2 per cent —the money to bo used in fixtending the water supply at Broken Hill and installing a sewerage scheme. Mr. Stevens also stated that ho proposed to appoint as president of this new Unemployment Relief Committee Sir George Julius, who had consented to accept the position. Sir George Julius is well known in Australia as chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and also as president of the Australian National Research Council, and his extraordinary mechanical skill has gained him world-wide fame as the inventor of the automatic totalisator. He is a son of Archbishop Julius, of Christchurch, and he began his academic career as a student at Canterbury College.