PRESS

RELEASE  E -- RELEASE P.M. JU1E 3.

The Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. R. W. Swartz) left

today for Auckland to attend the triennial conference of the New

Zealand Ex-Prisoners of War Ass4oiation.

Mr. Swartz, who is an ex-POW and a former Minister for

Repatriation, is the official guest of the New Zealand Association.

The conference will also be attended by a delegation from

the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Association, led by the President,

Mr. C. Gilbert, cf Queensland.

