MINING CONGRESS IN AUSTRALIA
SOME DELEGATES TO COME TO NEW ZEALAND Three New Zealand delegates to the fifth Empire Mining and Metallurgical congress, which will begin in Melbourne. left Harewood by Skymaster yesterday. They are Dr. L. I. Grange, Director of the Geological Survey of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Professor G. J. Williams. dean of the mining faculty at the University of Otago, and Professor J. I. Graham, professor of coalmining at the University of Otago. About 500 delegates from all parts of the Commonwealth will attend the congress, which is being held in Australia for the first time. After opening in Melbourne the congress will move to Canberra and then to Sydney and will include tours of mining centres in Victoria, South Australia, Quensland, and New South Wales. The congress will continue in Australia for about five weeks.
About 30 of the delegates will come to New Zealand on May 23 and from May 26 to May 28 the congress will be continued at Dunedin. Afterwards the delegates will visit Queenstown. Mount Cook, the thermal regions, and the Waikato coalfields.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27018, 18 April 1953, Page 2
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