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(Narrator) Distributed throughout Australia,
the Council has established 26 main divisions and sections,
together with a number of field stations.
The work is Commonwealth wide,
and many of the divisions and sections
have investigators working in various districts,
cities, and towns.
The Headquarters of the Council are located in Melbourne,
and comprise the main administrative offices
which include the Executive Committee and the Secretariat.
In the field of primary industry
the Council has established the Division of Soils,
which is housed at the Waite Institute, Adelaide;
the Commonwealth Research Station at Mildura, Victoria;
the Irrigation Research Station at Griffith, New South Wales;
the Divisions of Plant Industry and Economic Entomology;
and the Dickson Field Station at Canberra,
in the Federal Capital Territory;
the Division of Fisheries at Cronulla, New South Wales,
seen from the land and the sea;
the Division of Food Preservation at Homebush, New South Wales,
with a branch laboratory at Cannon Hill, near Brisbane, Queensland;
the Division of Animal Health and Production in Melbourne,
with its associated McMaster Laboratory in Sydney,
and McMaster Field Station at Badgerys Creek;
and the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition in Adelaide.
In the secondary industry field
there is a mineragraphic section
housed in the Geology Department at the University of Melbourne,
and ore dressing laboratories in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Kalgoorlie;
Divisions of Industrial Chemistry and Aeronautics in Melbourne;
the Division of Forest Products in Melbourne;
the Section of Tribophysics
housed in the Chemistry Department at the University of Melbourne;
the Divisions of Metrology, Electro Technology and Physics
housed in the National Standards laboratory, Sydney;
the Radio Research Board
located in the Electrical Engineering Department University of Sydney,
with branches at Canberra and Brisbane;
the Radio Physics Laboratory in Sydney;
the Building Material Section,
and the Flax Laboratory at Highett, Victoria;
and the Information Service,
which is closely related to the Head Office of the Council,
and is occupying temporary premises in Melbourne.
The Head Office library co-ordinates the work of all divisional libraries,
and maintains a central catalogue of holdings of all the libraries
which are associated with the various divisions and sections,
and of which these views are representative.
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