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THE Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the New Zealand Governments signed at Canberra on January 21, 1944, has now been published (Cmd. 6513). In addition to undertaking general collaboration with regard to the location of machinery set up under international organizations such as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the two countries agree to promote the establishment of a regional organization with advisory powers, which could be called the South Seas Regional Commission, on which the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States and the French Committee of National Liberation might be represented. Such a Commission would have as its function to secure a common policy on social, economic and political development directed towards the advancement and well-being of the inhabitants themselves and, particularly, the Commission would recommend arrangements for the increasing participation of local inhabitants in administration, with a view to the ultimate attainment of self-government in the form most suited to the circumstances of the peoples concerned; arrangements for material development, including production, finance, communications and marketing; for the co-ordination of health and medical services and education; for the maintenance and improvement of labour conditions and social services as well as collaboration in economic, social, medical and anthropological research.
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Regional Organization in Australasia. Nature 153, 582 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153582a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153582a0