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Appointments to Committees On the proposal of the Fifth Committee, the Assembly declared the following persons to be elected as members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions : Mr Thanassis Aghnides (Greece). Mr Andre Ganem (France). Mr C. L. Hsia (China). Mr Valentin Kabushko (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Mr S. K. Kirpalani (India). Mr Olyntho Machado (Brazil). Mr G. Martinez Cabanas (Mexico). Sir William Matthews (United Kingdom). Mr Donald C. Stone (United States of America). Of these nine persons, Mr O. Machado, Sir William Matthews, and Mr D. C. Stone were elected for a three-year term ; Mr Thanassis Aghnides, Mr C. L. Hsia, and Mr Valentin Kabushko were elected for a two-year term, and the remainder for a one-year term. On the proposal of the Fifth Committee, the Assembly elected the following persons, for a three-year term, to fill vacancies in the Committee on Contributions : Mr K. V. Dzung (China). Mr Jan Paranek (Czechoslovakia). Mr. James E. Webb {U.S.A.). Working Capital Fund At the first part of the first regular session the General Assembly established a Working Capital Fund of $25,000,000 to meet expenditures of the provisional budget for 1946 and to provide adequate cash reserves against the receipt of contributions of members who may be unable to remit their contributions when requested owing to legislative delays or other financial impediments. At the second part of the first session it was agreed that a Working Capital Fund is essential to provide for the delay in receipt of contributions, and, after discussion of the amount necessary, a compromise figure of $20,000,000 was approved. It was further decided that the advances to the Working Capital Fund should be in accordance with the scale adopted by the General Assembly for contributions of members to the second annual budget. New Zealand's proportion, which had been provisionally assessed in London at 0-994 per cent., is thus fixed at 0-50 per cent. ($100,000). Budgets'for 1946 and 1947 The Budgets for 1946 and 1947 were finally approved at the figures of $19,390,000 and $27,740,000 respectively. The principal increases in the 1947 figures are expenses of personnel services, $7,500,000 ; contributions