NQ DATE
M/ 74 19 April 1973
FCOE IG AISr APPOI. TTnITS
The Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Lance
Barnard, announced today a number of senior dinlomatic
appointments. Mr J. C. Ingram, currently Ambassador to the Philippines,
has been appointed High Commissioner for Australia in Carada.
Mr P. G. Henderson has been apnointed Australian
Ambassador to the Philirpines, his first appointment as Head
of Mission. Mr F. B. Hall, at present Australian Ambassador to Greece,
has been accredited as non-resident High Commissioner to Cyprus.
Mr Ingram was born in 1928 and educated at De La Salle
College and the University of Melbourne. He joined the
Department of Foreign Affairs in 1946 and has served in Tel Aviv,
Washington, Brussels, Jakarta and at the Permanent Mission to the
United Nations New York. He has been Australian Ambassador to
the Philipoines since July 1970. Mr Ingram is married with
three children. / 2
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Mr Henderson was born in 1928 and educated at Geelong
Church of England Grammar School and the University of Oxford.
He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1951 and has
served in Washington, Jakarta, Geneva and London. He is at
present Assistant Secretary in charge of the Southern Asia
Branch of the Department in Canberra. Mr Henderson is married
and has four children.
Mr Hall has served in Chungking and Nanking, Singapore
New Delhi, Wellington, Kuala Lumpur, and as Australian
Ambassador to Iran from 1968 to 1972. He has been Australian
Ambassador to Greece since September 1972. Mr Hall will be
resident in Athens but will visit Cyprus from time to time.
Mr Barnard said that the anpointment of Mr Hall as
High Commissioner to Cyprus marked the formal establishment of
diplomatic relations with that country at Ambassadorial level.
He pointed to this development as evidence of the Australian
Government's intention to further strengthen its ties with
Cyprus.