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(3) Libraries and Museums. (4) Natural Sciences. (5) Social Sciences, Philosophy, and Humanistic Studies. (6) Creative Arts. All the delegation acted at one time or another on this Commission, but, since circumstances compelled two of them to sit on the Sub-Commission on Administration and Finance, the main burden of representing- New Zealand on the Programme Commission fell on R. A. Falla. B, Relief and Reconstruction Commission.—New Zealand was represented by Lorna McPhee. C. Administrative, Financial, Legal, and External Relations Commission, which immediately split into two working Sub-Commissions—-(l) Administrative and Financial Sub-Commission: C. E. Beeby was elected Chairman of this Sub-Commission. In this capacity it was found desirable that he should not exercise a deliberative vote, and, since the delegation regarded this Sub-Commission as the most important one of the Conference, Lorna McPhee sat on it to speak and vote for New Zealand. (2) Legal and External Relations Sub-Commission: Owing to lack of delegates, New Zealand was unable to be represented here. Reports of the Commissions In the description that follows of the work of these Commissions and Sub-Commissions we have thought it best to emphasize the broad end-results rather than the detailed methods of arriving at them. The New Zealand delegation took a full part in the discussions, and was represented on the Co-ordinating Committee that met each day to relate the work of all the Commissions, but we shall refer to New Zealand's specific contributions only where points of major principle were involved. A. Programme Commission (Chairman: Dr Martinez Baez (Mexico)) The Programme Commission found itself faced with a tentative programme involving over two hundred separate projects. These were embodied in the printed " Report on the Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization," which had been prepared by the Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission on the basis of the suggestions sent in by the various countries. The New Zealand delegation considered this projected programme far too diffuse and ambitious for an infant Organization, and strongly favoured a resolution, moved by the United States of