U.N. BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25889, 23 August 1949, Page 5

U.N. BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR

MR LIE PROPOSES INCREASE i CRITICISM BY STANDING COMMITTEE <R mK- Bep 8 e p m ? NEW YORK, August 21. lhe Secretary-General of the United Nations (Mr Trygve Lie) to-night proi Posed an expanded budget of 44,5 , 14.398 I 827271? Th ’ s estimate is 827,270 dollars higher than the budget approved for 1949. It will come befoi ®* the . General Assembly next month. Mr Lies budget was strongly criticised by the standing committee of budgetary experts, which operates independently of the Secretariat. The recommended a cut of 1,786,750 dollars, and said that it noted a persistent and dangerous trend” by which some highly placed members c,f M r £ ie s staff were building oversized, self-contained administrative machines round themselves. The committee added that the need for streamlining was important because of the increasing currency difficulties of United Nations members. FIVE PERSONS DEAD N.S.W. MOTOR ACCIDENT SYDNEY, August 22. When a motor-car skidded on a bend and hit a tree on the Gwydir highway, G miles from Moree, in northern New early yesterday morning, 1 five persons were killed. Among those killed were two New * Zealand nursing sisters employed at 1 the Moree Hospital. They were Gwen- t doline Dorothea Godber, of Maniatutu « road, Te Puke, and Miss Audrey Agnes I Archibald, of Main street, Blenheim. Both were aged 26. I