WODONGA-MELBOURNE STANDARDISATI ON
Message for " AGE" Supplement by the Prime Minister, the
Rt. Hon. R. 6. Menzies
The completion of the standard gauge railway link
between Wodonga and Melbourne is an event of great significance
for Australians everywhere.
The immediate advantages which it confers on the
industrial south-east of our great continent are apparent, for
elimination of the break of gauge between New South gales and
Victoria should considerably enhance the volume of commercial
traffic and the speed of shipment and handling which are so vital
to an expanding economy. Further, the convenience to inter-
State travellers of an unbroken and restful journey between our
two greatest cities should win unreserved approval and greater u.. a
But beyond these benefits to travellers or to commerce,
this consummation of a long-held dream is a symbol of the new
Australia which lies in the near future.
The Wodonga-Melbourne rail link is but one of a great
number of development projects standardisation from Kalgoorlie
to Perth is another designed to win from our country greater
productivity to the greater good of all our citizens.
I believe that if we see this event in that light we
will have a truer appreciation of its importance. In the years Wc
come, those of us who are lucky enough to be here will see changes
wrought across the face of our land in which we will properly take
immense pride, as I do in the project which this supplement
celebrates. R. G. Menzies.
CANBERRA, 3rd January, 1962.
FOR THE PRESS: COMPOSITION OF THE AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION
TO ATTEND THE SECOND COMMONWEAITH
EDUCATION CONFERENCE IN NEW DELHI THIS
MONTH.
The Prime Minister announced today the composition of
the Australian delegation which will attend the Second
Commonwealth Education Conference to be held in New Delhi this
month. The Prime Minister of India will open the Conference in
VIGYAN BHAWAN, New Delhi, on Thursday morning, 11th January,
and Dr. K. L. SHRIMALI, Minister of Education, will be its
Chairman. About 200 delegates from 13 Commonwealth countries
and from colonial territories are expected to attend. The
Conference will end on 25th January,
The agenda for the Conference has been drawn up by the
Commonwealth Education Liaison Committee in London and the
Governments concerned. This Conference will discuss ways by
which educational co-operation between the countries of the
Commonwealth can be made more effective. Following the First
Commonwealth Education Conference, which was held at Oxford in
July, 1959, a scheme of scholarships was initiated and other
forms of Commonworlth c:-oror'ition in oducntion wuor plnnned..
inob-ia lin has underbaken to provide 100 scholarships at any
one time under this scheme and has made arrangements for
sending educational experts to other countries of the
Commonwealth and for special visits and courses for
educationists in Australian universities, technical colleges
and education departments.
The Australian delegation will be as follows
Sir ALLEN BROWN, Deputy High Commissioner, London
( Leader).
Professor J. P. BAXTER, Vice-Chancellor, University of
New South Wales,
Dr, H. S. WYNDHAM, Director-General of Education, New
South Wales.
Dr. T. L. ROBERTSON, Director-General of Education,
Western Australia.
Dr. J. T. GUNTHER, Assistant Administrator, Territco.
of Papua-New G: unea. Administration,
Mr. E. J. B. FOXCROFT, First Assistant Scoretary.
Prime Mihister's Department.
Mr. J. J. PRATT, Deputy Director, Commonwealth Off:-:
of Education.
Mr. H. S. AMOS, Assistant Secretary, Department of
Treasury.
The delegation will be assisted by officers from the
Office of the Australian High Commissioner in New Delhi,
CANBERRA.
8th January, 1962, P. M.