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PRESS STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE K.E. NEWMAN, M.P.

MINISTER FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Mr A .J .  Woods, Secretary to the Department of National

Development,  has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Australian

Atomic Energy Commission. The appointment is for a period of

seven years.

Mr Woods succeeds Sir Lenox Hewitt, O.B.E., who was

appointed to the Membership of the Commission following his

appointment as Secretary to the Department of Minerals and

Energy in December 1972. Sir Lenox was appointed as Deputy ,

Chairman of the Commission from June 1975. Upon his appointment

as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qantas Airways Ltd.

in August -19 75, Sir Lenox agreed, at the request of Ministers,

that he continue as Deputy Chairman. He made it clear to

the Government that he would be happy to relinquish the

Office when an appropriate replacement could be made.  .

-  ,  I want to express the Government's appreciation of

the contribution made by Sir Lenox who has carried on with

this work for the past 2h years in addition to his duties and

responsibilities as Chairman of Qantas. The Government was

especially fortunate that Sir Lenox was available and willing

to also carry out the duties of Chairman of the Commission

for a number of months after the sudden death of Mr R.W. Boswell

in 1976. .

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