EASTERN SUPPLY MISSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 January 1944, Page 5

EASTERN SUPPLY MISSION

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA Sydney, Jan. 5. A trade mission from the Eastern Group Supply Council in India is at present visiting Australia and will leave shortly for New Zealand. The delegation is headed by Mr lan Elliot, chairman of the British Ministry of Supply Mission in India, and includes Major-General R. P. Pakenham-Walsh.. Director-General of War Provisions.’ Eastern Group Supply Council, Mr F. Harrison, supply and munitions expert of the British Supply Ministry, and Major Sir Thomas Burney, staff officer to Major-General PakenhamWalsh. Since their arrival in Australia the members of the delegation have had many conferences with military, munitions. and supply officials. Announcing the presence of the mission in Australia, the Commonwealth Minister for Supply, Mr J. A. Beasley, stressed the importance of co-operation between this strategic area and Lord Mountbatten’s South-east Asia Command. Besides doing everything possible to exterminate the Japanese in the South-West Pacific. Australia was determined to give all possible material aid to other theatres of which India was* particularly important, he said. Considerable material had already been shipped from Australia to India, + he Middle East, Iraq. Persia, and adjacent theatres. Mr Elliot has paid a high tribute to the Australian industrial war effort, not only for volume of production achieved but also for its outstanding qualitv.