BRITISH COUNCIL.
KING GIVES PATRONAGE. LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE. (omclal Wireless.) RUGBY, May 14. The King, who as Prince of Wales presided at the inaugural meeting last July of the British Council —an organisation formed to spread abroad a better knowledge of the country’s language, literature, art and science—has accorded his patronage to the council. Lord Eustace Percy, formerly Minister of Education, and until recently Minister without portfolio in the present National Government, will become chairman of the council. The former chairman was Lord Tyrrell, who resigned in order to become president.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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91BRITISH COUNCIL. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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