QUEEN MOTHER TO VISIT N.Z.
Two-Week Stay Next February (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, August 25. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, will visit New Zealand for two weeks next February, flying from London to Fiji and then travelling in the Royal yacht Britannia. She will use the Queen’s yacht throughout the tour.
She will then spend three to four weeks in Australia in March where she will open the third Adelaide Festival of the Arts. The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) announced the visit on Saturday and said consideration is now being given to her New Zealand itinerary, which in view of the short time available will be “of a somewhat limited nature.” It had been agreed, he said.
that the Queen Mather would have a few days’ holiday during her stay. “It has been my great pleasure to assure Her Majesty that the New Zealand people will welcome her with all the warmth and enthusiasm with which they havp greeted Her Majesty on her previous visits to .our country,” said Mr Holyoake.
The tour, which was announced at the same time in London, will also take the Queen Mother to Tasmania and Western Australia after she has opened the festival, of which She is patron. / The Queen Mother last visited New Zealand ,in the summer of 1958, and first came to the Dominion as Duchess of York in 1927.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30219, 26 August 1963, Page 10
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