SIX COMMITTEES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 5

SIX COMMITTEES

PRELIMINARY WORK CONCESSION STRUCTURE DETAILS OF FINANCE (9 a.m.) CANBERRA, Jan. 29. The six committees appointed by the South Sea Commission conference met to-day for the first time. The committees, the function of which is to establish and develop a South Seas advisory commission will deal respectively with its structure and composition, establishment and organisation and functions and powers of finance for immediate projects, and drafting and co-ordination. It is considered that the headquarters of the proposed commission should be established in either Sydney, Auckland or

Suva where there is a central medical school to train native medical practitioners for territories in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Some delegates expect early controversy to develop as to how far the proposed commission shall be able to intrude on the domestic policies of the dependent territories.

The French Minister, M Pierre A.uge, in an address to the conference, said that its scope should not include political or ideological problems which France, for her part, resolved in the sdlting up of the French union.

The question of marketing is also expected in some quarters to provoke keen discussion.

The Australian and New Zealand delegations prepared a draft of the suggested constitution and charter for the proposed commission, which will be submitted to the various committees, probably to-dav.

Each aspect of the charter will be considered by tbe appropriate committees. which will receive also any views or drafts which any participating Government might submit. The draft resulting from these discussions will then go before the co-ordinating committee and the final suggested charter will be placed before a plenary session for public discussion