FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 59/ 1968
EXPO ' 70, OSAKA, JAPAN
AUSTRAL IAN ADVISORY-CMMTTEE
Statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. ohn Gorton
The Government has appointed an Advisory Committee to
help develop plans for Australia's participation in the World Exhibition
to be held in Osaka, Japan in 1970.
The twelve-man committee comprises prominent
Australians representing a wide cross-section of our community,
ranging from industry and commerce to academic life and the arts. This
Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir John Overall, Commissioner
of the Nationial Capital Development Commission, will act as an advisory
panel to Rear Admiral T. K. Morrison, whose appointment as Australian
Commissioner -General for the Exhibition was announced last January.
Serving on the Committee with Sir John Overall, will be:-v
Mr. H. R. Bonython, Director, Bonython Art Gallery; Executive
Member, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Foundation Member,
Society of Collectors of Fine Arts.
Professor J. Burke, Professor of Fine Arts, University of
Melbourne.
Mr. G. F. Cardno, Chairman, Cardno and Davies, Consulting
Engineers, Member, Export Development Council.
Professor S. Crawcour, Head, Department of Japanese, Australian
National University.
Sir Maurice Mawby, Chairman, Conzinc Riotinto of Australia;
Chairman, Japan-Australia Business Co-operative Association;
Chairman, Hammersley Holdings ( which controls funds for the
Sainji-Hammersley scholarship, a prestigious grant to take
Australians to Japan).
Mr. Ranald McDonald, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief,
Melbourne Age.
Sir Charles McGrath, Chairman of Directors, REPCO Ltd.;
Chairman, Export Development Council.
Mr. R. W. Norman, General Manager of the Bank of New South
Wales, Sydney.
Mr. H. J. Souter, A. C. T. U. Melbourne.
Mr. T. B. C. Walker, Chairman, Australian Wloolgrowers and
Graziers Council.
Sir Edward Warren, Chairman, joint Coal Board; President,
Australia-Japan Business Co-operative Committee. / 2
Planning is now under way for Australia's contribution to
the Exhibition, and this will be greatly assisted by those who have so
generously agreed to serve on the Advisory Committee.
The Exhibition will be educational, scientific and cultural
in character, taking as its central theme " Progress and Harmony". This
is the first such exhibition to be held outside Europe or North Americai.
and will be one of the largest of its kind staged anywhere in the world.
The Exhibition is expected to attract 50 million visitors during the period
March to 13 September 1970.
CANBERRA May 1968
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