The Committee.

The Committee associated with me consisted of Dame Mary Gilmore, Australia's leading poetess (and I'm not sure that I could not rightly drop the feminine suffix); the Misses F'ora Eldershaw and Marjorie Barnard—the two young women writers whose skilful collaboration has produced “A House Is Built,” “Green Memories,” “The Glass House,” and other novels which have moved the critics, both of Australasia and the Homeland, to general laudation; “Harry” Green, the Librarian of the Fisher and himself a notable literary critic, and the writer of excellent verse; Frank Dalby Davison, the author of that unique study, “Man Shy,” a book which won the Gold Medal of the Australian Literary Society and has already become a classic; the Hon. T. D. Mutch, ex-Minister for Education in the first Lang Ministry and now the Government representative of Coogee in the N.S.W. Assembly; J. D. Clyne, M.L.A., the representative of the city constituency of King—a Labour stronghold—who, almost alone in this regard, insisted during the passage of the authorising Bill through the N.S.W. Parliament upon the necessity of introducing some literary activities into the Celebrations' scheme; and W. E. FitzHenry, a member of the literary staff of the Sydney Bulletin, whose long experience with the various competitions arranged by that journal, and as Hon. Secretary of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, made him the ideal man to take the Honorary Secretaryship of the Committee to which position he was accordingly appointed with enthusiasm. That he filled it with credit to himself and advantage to the Committee goes without saying, and I am glad to take this opportunity of testifying to his varied and indefatigable efforts to make the Committee's work a success.