FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 611967
-ME MBERSHIP OF COMMONWEALTH GRANTS
COMMISSION
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt
The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, announced
today the appointment of Mr. W. R. Lane as a Member of the
Commonwealth Grants Commission. The period of the appointment is
until 30th September, 1969.
Mr. Lane is a graduate of the Universities of
Queensland and Cambridge and at present he occupies the position of
senior lecturer in the Department of Economics in the University of
Queensland. He has specialised in the field of public finance and has
taken close interest in Commonwealth-State financial relations. During
1964 and 1965, Mr. Lane took leave from the university to work in the
Commonwealth Treasury where he concentrated on research into
Commonwealth -State financial relations.
The other members of the Commission are Sir Leslie
Melville LCB. E. ( Chairman) and Mr. H. J. Go odes, C. B. E.
CANBERRA, jnuary, 1967.
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