N.Z. Service Chiefs To Visit Australia
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.).— The Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, said today that the Australian Government had invited the New Zealand Chiefs of Staff to visit Melbourne to discuss common defence problems with the Australian service authorities. Both the New Zealand and Australian Governments had particular coneern fos the security of the South Pacific area and, in order that full consideration could be given to various local defence measures required in the aiea, it was necessary that there should be the closest co-operation between the service authorities of Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, said Mr Jones. • The meetings in Australia are expected to last one week. They will be attended by the Australian service authorities, the New Zealand Chiefs of Staff, and members. ol the United Kingdom service liaison staff at Melbourne.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1949, Page 4
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