KING'S PATRONAGE.
NEW BRITISH COUNCIL. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 14. The King, who as Prince of Wales presided at the inaugural meeting last July of the British Council—an organisation formed to spread abroad a better knowledge of the country's language, literature, art and science—has accorded his patronage to the council. Lord Eustace Percy, formerly Minister of Education and until recently Minister without portfolio in the present Government, will become chairman. The former chairman was Lord Tyrrell, who resigned in order to become president.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1936, Page 7
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