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Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1946, Page 4

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Mr. J. A. Mollison, the world famous British aviator, has arrived in Auckland from Australia. In the last few months he has been demonstrating British aircraft in Brazil, the West Indies, Egypt and India. Mr. Norman Corwin, a leading American radio dramatist, who is on a world tour sponsored by the Wehdel Wilkie Foundation Fund and Common Council of American Unity, is expected to arrive at Auckland from Sydney on Friday. The purpose of the tour is to encourage the concept of one world especially in press, radio and films. Mr. Corwin is making recordings of his tour. Dr. C. E. Beeby, Director of Education, and Dr. R. A. Falla, Curator of the Canterbury Museum have been appointed by the Government as delegates to United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Conference to be held at Paris next month. This was announced by the Acting Minister of Education, Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, yesterday. The Paris conference will be the inaugural meeW: fng of the organisation proper and, it' is important that' New Zealand should be represented by persons with first-hand and recent knowledge of our education cultural problems and resources, the Minister said. The task of the conference would be to lay down lines of general policy and determine the scope of the organisation's activities. Dr. Beeby would investigate educational advances in other countries before returning to the Dominion next February.