MEETING OF U.N. COMMISSION
Attendance Of N.Z. Representative
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 29.
Mr A. B. Thompson, of the Department of Education, will leave for New York tomorrow to attend, as the New Zealand member, the next session of the United Nations Social Commission. The meeting will be held at United Nations headquarters from May 6 to May 24. The commission is a body of 18 representatives qualified to advise the United Nations Economic and Social Council on social policy. During this session it will consider national and international action in the field of community development, the maintenance of family levels of living, financing of housing, and United Nations action in the field of prevention of crime and treatment of offenders. The commission will also have before it a report on the world social situation prepared by the United Nations Secretariat.
Mr Thompson is officer for higher education in the Department of Education. He is also administrative head of the Vocational Guidance Service, and represents the Department of Education on the National Council of Education. He was formerly lecturer in education at Auckland University College, and is the author of “Adult Education in New Zealand,” published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Thrift Clubs.— Since May, 1956, when the Post Office Thrift Clubs were started, 35,253 accounts have been opened. The annual savings from these accounts totals £1.917 million a year.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 3
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235MEETING OF U.N. COMMISSION Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 3
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