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FOR PESS: P. M. No. 24/ 1959.
COMMlvONWEALTH CONFER~ ENCE ON EDUCATION,
ENGLAND--29TH JULY.
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. McEwe, . P.
The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. McEwen, announced today
the names of the Australian delegates to the Commonwealth
Conference on Education to begin in London on 7th July and continue
at Oxford from 15th to 29th July.
Mr. McEwen said the delegation would be led by Sir Allen
Brown, Deputy High Commissioner for Australia in the
United Kingdom. Members of the delegation who would travel from
Australia would be:-
Rt. Hon. Sir Earle Page, M. P.
Mr. H. i3. Basten, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide-
Dr. R. B. Madgwick, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New
England.
Dr. H. S. Wyndham, Director-General of Education in New South
111ales.
Mr. D. H. Tribolet, Director of Education in Tasmania.
Dr. R. Mendelsohn, Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's
Department, Canberra.
Mr. J. J. Pratt, Deputy Director, Commonwealth Office of
Education.
The delegation would be supplemented as necessary from officers
stationed at Australia House, London.
Mr. McEwen said that the conference resulted from the
Commonwealth Trade and Economic Conference in Montreal in
September, 1958, when it was agreed in principle to establish a
new scheme of Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships, and to
hold a conference in the United Kingdom this year. The purpose of
this conference was to review existing arrangements for
co-operation between Commonwealth countries in the field of
education, and to make recommendations for any improvements or
expansion that might be possible with the idea of incorporating
them in a new scheme as envisaged by the Montreal Conference.
CANBERRA, June 25, 1959.
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