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Knibbs was president of the Social and
Statistical Science Section, and took as the subject of his address "Statistics in regard to World and Empire development". Two years later he was president of the association and spoke on "Science and its service to man". Knibbs resigned his directorship of the
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Director of Technical Education for New South Wales in 1905. He was also in this year acting professor of physics at the
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dealing with problems of trade and industry, and was a consulting member of the committee on munitions of war. In 1920 Knibbs played a leading role at the
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Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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