Australian Pacific

Research Council

A QUEENSLAND University lecturer, T. P. Fry, speaking recently at the Brisbane University Labour Club, paid a warm tribute to the work of the Australian Minister for External Terri tories, Mr. E. J. Ward. Dr. Fry said that Mr. Ward had had the advice of a group of experts who were attached to the Army headquarters at one stage during the war, and who were now, in reality, a kind of brains trust. fTHHE following, according to a recent J, semi-official statement, is a list of the members of the “Australian Paci fic Territories Research Council,” which has been promised, by Mr. Ward, £30,000 to cover the cost of its operations.

Professor R. C. Mills, director of the Commonwealth Office of Education (chairman).

Colonel J. K. Murray, Administrator of Papua-New Guinea.

Dr. H. C. Coombs, director of Post-War Reconstruction.

W. W. Forsyth, Department of Ex ternal Affairs.

J. R. Halligan, secretary of Dept, of External Territories.

Professor T. Harvey Sutton, represent ing Commonwealth Dept, of Public Health.

W. C. Thomas, Commonwealth Treasury.

A. A. Conlon, formerly Army’s Direc tor of Research and Civil Affairs.

Professor E. S. Hills, Professor of Geo logy, Melbourne.

Professor K. S. Isles, Professor of Economics, Adelaide.

J. R. Kerr, principal of School of Paci fic Administration, Sydney.

Hon. Camilla Wedgwood, anthropolo gist.

Professor R. D. Wright, Dean of Fac ulty of Medicine, Melbourne.