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VISITORS FROM U.S.

Questions On Itinerary (Par Kamen tan/ Reporter) WELLINGTON, Sept. 10.

Tw® newspaper groups from the United States were coming to New Zealand next January to make quack social and economic studies, but they had been pressed to include a visit to Mount Cook in their itineraries, said the Minister of Publicity < MrShand) in Parliament today He was replying on behalf of the Minister of Tourist and Health Resorts (Mir Eyre) to a question by Mr H. E. L. Pickering (Govt., Hurunuii). who asked that he ensure the visitore had ample opportunity to view the Southern Alps and the tourist poteittaal of the fiordlands. ( Forty-three American journalists would be in New Zealand from January 14 to January 22 on a newspaper study mission, and another 70 were expected from the National Editorial Association from January 23 to February 2, said Mr Shand. Both parties would go to Mount Oook, but their itineraries, drawn up by a United Stales travel agency, did not permit them to go further south. They were not on a sight-seeing tour, he said.

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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30234, 12 September 1963, Page 15

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VISITORS FROM U.S. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30234, 12 September 1963, Page 15

VISITORS FROM U.S. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30234, 12 September 1963, Page 15