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GOVERNMENT DIRECTORS FOR OLD SYDNEY TOWN P/L

The Minister for Tourism and Recreation, Mr Frank  Stewart, today announced the appointment of two Australian  Government Directors on the Board of Old Sydney Town Pty.  .  Limited.

They are Mr John Ducker.of Mona Vale, New South Wales  and Mr Lloyd F. Bott, D.S.C., Secretary, Department of Tourism  and Recreation, Canberra.

Their appointment follows the Australian Government's  purchase last April of a 25.5 per cent equity in Old Sydney  Town Pty. Limited. The company is establishing at Somersby  in New South Wales a major tourist attraction based on a

re-creation of the area around Sydney Cove as it was in 1810.

Mr Ducker, a member of the New South Wales Legislative .   Council, is President of the New South Wales Branch of the  A.L.P., and Assistant Secretary of the Labor Council of .  New South Wales.

Mr Bott, formerly Secretary of the Department of  National Development and Deputy Secretary, Department of . Supply, has participated on several Boards of Management embracing  Research, Production, Stores and Transport and Contracting.

He is a former Commissioner of the Australian Atomic  Energy Commission and former Chairman of the Snowy Mountains  Council.

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Canberra 27 June 1974

