AUSTRALIAN VISIT
Mr. Fraser Leaves By Air The Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, left by air yesterday for Australia, where he intends to hold discussions with Mr. Curtin and the Commonwealth Government on the war situation and other matters of mutual concern to the two countries. Mr. Fraser will also meet General MacArthur, Commander of the South-west Pacific area. Brigadier-General Patrick Hurley, the American Minister to New Zealand, also travelled to Australia in the same plane. Other members of the party include Mr. C. A. Berendsen, permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department, Mr. B. C. Ashwin, secretary to the Treasury, and Mr. W. O. Harvev, private secretary to Mr. Fraser. General Hurley is accompanied by the military attache to the Legation, Colonel J. H. Nankivell, and by his private secretary, Mr. J. E. Horner. It is not expected that Mr. Fraser will be absent from New Zealand for more than a few days. During Mr. Fraser’s absence from the Dominion, the Minister of Supply and Munitions, Mr. Sullivan, is Acting-Prime Minister.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 5
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