FOOD CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 4

FOOD CONFERENCE

WORK OF COMMITTEES

Another report from the New Zealand delegation to the Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Fraser) states that at the plenary session on Monday evening representatives of a further four United Nations added their signatures to the constitution of the newlyestablished Food and Agricultural Organisation, thus increasing to 34 the number of signatory Governments. "As the conference passes into the second week,' 'states the report, "pressure is being put on committees to speed up' their work in the hope that commission reports may be completed by Saturday. For the purpose of expediting consideration of their agenda, several of the technical committees have now temporarily broken up into expert panels, each dealing with a particular phase of more general committee recommendations ' concerning F.A.O. policy and programme. These recommendations of committees will then be submitted to the commissions, which in turn, will report to the conference itself. ..." '

This multiplicity of committees and sub-committees means for most of the delegations, especially the smaller ones, continuous meetings from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, with an hour's break for lunch and occasional plenary sessions or informal consultations during the evenings.