Scope
In conducting the inquiry into the early adoption of the metric system, the committee heard the views of representatives from industry and various professions, studied the utilisation of the metric system in other countries, considered the effect on the retail industry and exports and received submissions from the Commonwealth and state governments.
Chairs
Sequence
![Select Committee on the Metric System of Weights and Measures, 29 April 1968. L-R: Senators Walter Cooper, Arnold Drury, John Marriott [Deputy Chair], Reg Jennings [Assistant Clerk; Deputy Usher of the Black Rod], Bert Nicholls [Clerk of the Committee; Usher of the Black Rod], Keith Laught [Chair], Alan Harper [Technical Consultant], George Poyser, Peter Sim, Frank McManus and Archie Benn.](/assets/committees/body-images/c138/c138-metric-system-of-weights-and-measures-select-committee-29-april-1968-j2-2.jpg)
Select Committee on the Metric System of Weights and Measures, 29 April 1968. L-R: Senators Walter Cooper, Arnold Drury, John Marriott [Deputy Chair], Reg Jennings [Assistant Clerk; Deputy Usher of the Black Rod], Bert Nicholls [Clerk of the Committee; Usher of the Black Rod], Keith Laught [Chair], Alan Harper [Technical Consultant], George Poyser, Peter Sim, Frank McManus and Archie Benn.
![Fred Lehany, Chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Applied Physics, accompanying members of the Select Committee on the Development of Canberrra on a site visit to the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Arnold Drury, Archie Benn, George Poyser and Keith Laught [Chair], Fred Lehany and a CSIRO researcher.](/assets/committees/body-images/c138/c138-metric-system-of-weights-and-measures-select-committee-site-visits-1967-j2-1.jpg)
Fred Lehany, Chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Applied Physics, accompanying members of the Select Committee on the Development of Canberrra on a site visit to the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Arnold Drury, Archie Benn, George Poyser and Keith Laught [Chair], Fred Lehany and a CSIRO researcher.
![Committee chair Senator Keith Laught and other committee members examining a set of calibration weights at the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Arnold Drury, George Poyser, Keith Laught and Archie Benn, and George Bell [Senior Principal Research Scientist, Division of Applied Physics, CSIRO].](/assets/committees/body-images/c138/c138-metric-system-of-weights-and-measures-select-committee-site-visits-1967-j2-5.jpg)
Committee chair Senator Keith Laught and other committee members examining a set of calibration weights at the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Arnold Drury, George Poyser, Keith Laught and Archie Benn, and George Bell [Senior Principal Research Scientist, Division of Applied Physics, CSIRO].
![The committee's technical consultant, Alan Harper, demonstrating the use of laboratory measurement equipment to committee members at the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Frank McManus, George Poyser, Keith Laught [Chair] and Arnold Drury, and Alan Harper [Senior Principal Research Scientist, Division of Physics, CSIRO National Standards Laboratory].](/assets/committees/body-images/c138/c138-metric-system-of-weights-and-measures-select-committee-site-visits-1967-j2-8.jpg)
The committee's technical consultant, Alan Harper, demonstrating the use of laboratory measurement equipment to committee members at the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, 1967. L-R: Senators Frank McManus, George Poyser, Keith Laught [Chair] and Arnold Drury, and Alan Harper [Senior Principal Research Scientist, Division of Physics, CSIRO National Standards Laboratory].