COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
N.Z. REPRESENTATIVE IN LONDON APPOINTMENT OF MR J. G. YOUNG (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Jan. 23. The Postmaster-General (Mr F. Hackett) announced to-day that Mr J. G. Young, who was Director-Gene-ral of the Post and Telegraph Department from 1939 until he retired in
1945, had been appointed New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Communications Council in London and that Mr Young would leave New Zealand at an early date. The council, whose main function is to co-ordinate the interests of countries of the British Commonwealth from the point of view of their external telecommunications services, will replace the former Imperial Communications Advisory Council, on which New Zealand was represented for many years by another former officer of the Post Office (Mr M. B. Esson), who recently returned to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 6
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