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Abstract

THE Minister of Reconstruction has appointed a committee to advise him as to the procedure which should be adopted for dealing with the position of the chemical trades after the war. The committee consists of the following members—Sir Keith W. Price (chairman), Mr. J. Anderson, Mr. J. F. Brunner, Dr. C. Carpenter, Prof. J. G. Lawn, Sir William Pearce, Mr. K. B. Quinan, and the Right. Hon. J. W. Wilson. Mr. G. C. Smallwood, Ministry of Munitions, will act as secretary to the committee. The officers of Government departments are appointed with the concurrence of their respective Ministers, and the other members of the committee have been appointed at the suggestion of a representative meeting of chemical manufacturers. Dr. Addison has requested the committee to conduct its deliberations with a view to the creation of some organisation which should be adequately representative of the trade as a whole, and by means of which the trade may be enabled hereafter to continue to develop its own resources and to enlist the closest co-operation of all those engaged in the chemical industry.