TOURING AUSTRALIANS
SYDNEY, October 5. Five Federal Ministers will leave Australia shortly to attend interDominion and other conferences.
The Air Minister, Mr. A. S. Drakeford, is expected to leave almost immediately for New Zealand on his way to Canada for the Empire Aviation Conference, which opens on October 23. Mr. F. M. Forde and the Minister of External Affairs, Dr. H. 'V., Evatt, will leave later in the month to confer with the New Zealand Government.
The Minister of- Health, Senator Fraser, is also expected to visit New Zealand this month to investigate health and social services.
The Commonwealth Customs Minister, Senator Keane, is also to go abroad, to study lend-lease administration.
Mr. Drakeford is expected to discuss aviation policy with the New Zealand Government on his way to Canada, while the main subjects at the Aus-tralian-New Zealand talks are likely to be. Customs and trade policy and plans to develop regional control of the Pacific.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1944, Page 6
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