"Conference Officially Opened" [British Commonwealth Relations Conference]

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 January, 1959. "The sixth unofficial British Commonwealth Relations Conference was officially opened by the Governor-General (Lord Cobham) at the Opera House today. The photograph shows part of the official party. They are (from left to right): Professor C.E. Carrington (partly obscured), Sir John Slessor, the Prime Minister (Mr Nash), the chairman of the conference (Dr J.C. Beaglehole), the Mayor (Mr W.B. Tennent, M.P.), and the Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund)." Another photo of the delegates appears on the same day.

Identification

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

January 12, 1959

Digitisation id

2017N_2017-20_015078

Format

B&W negative

Held in

IMCA Digital Archive