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FOR PE. NSoS. : 2P7./ 1M9 59.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION
APPOINTMENT OF PART-TIME COMMISSIONERS.
Statement by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies,
The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announced today the
names of the four part-time Commissioners who, with the full-time
Chairman, Sir Leslie Martin, will constitute the
Australian Universities Commission.
They are:-
Professor N. S. Bayliss, Victorian Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
1927-30, Professor of Chemistry in the University of
Western Australia since 1938. He has also been Chairman
of the Professorial Board and Acting Vice-Chancellor of
that University from time to time.
Professor A. D. Trendall, Master of University House,
Australian National University, and Emeritus Professor
of Classics, University of Sydney. He was Chairman of
the Professorial Board of the University of' Sydney in
194+ 5-4+ 9 and again in 1952-54+ and was Acting Vice-
Chancellor in 1953.
Mr. K. A. Wills, O. St. j., Managing
Director of G. R. Wills, Adelaide, and Chairman of
the Finance Committee of the University of Adelaide.
Dr. J. Vernon, General Manager, Colonial Sugar Refining
Co. Ltd., who has a distinguished academic career and
wide experience in industry.
Mr. Menzies said he was greatly pleased that men of
such standing and experience had agreed to accept the responsibilities
of membership of the Commission in addition to their
existing commitments. The Government, he added, was grateful
also to the Universities and the business firms concerned, which
in the national interest had agreed to put up with the
inconvenience that must inevitably result from the absence on
Commission business of such key men.
CANBERRA, A. C. T.
21st July, 1959. I
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