Mail - Ferntree Gully Mail - 09th June 2015

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Ferntree Gully

Belgrave

Mail Covering the Dandenongs in the Yarra Ranges & Cardinia Shires

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FERNTREE Gully resident William ‘Bill’ Murray said he feels like an official Australian after receiving an appointment to the being made a Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his many years of work for the Australian grain industry. Mr Murray and his wife Irene moved to Australia in 1970 and have been residents of Bayswater for six years and Ferntree Gully for 39 years. He said that receiving this award was a great honour and could not believe it at first. “I was absolutely astonished,” he said. “I thought it had been addressed to the wrong person.” Originally from Northern Ireland, Mr Murray started working with the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) in 1970, in charge of all matters scientific. Mr Murray worked with the AWB for 21 years and was appointed manager of their technical services division, then director of scientific services. He has travelled all over the world for the AWB to marketplaces to determine what foreign markets were looking for in terms of grain types, quality, pesticides levels, and similar. He has visited countries such as Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Russia, and China, conducting training courses and finding out what each marketplace is looking for in their grains. Mr Murray finished up with the AWB in 1991 and started his own consultancy company. Mr Murray still works in the grains industry, mostly providing consultancy services for the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and the National Residue Survey (NRS). Mainly funded by GRDC, now days he still travels internationally to give guidance on regulations to many organisations that satisfies both Australian and overseas grain markets. He also helped found the National


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