Indonesian To Visit Papakura

Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 1

Indonesian To Visit Papakura

<New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 28. The Prime Minister, Mr Holyoake, said tonight he will inquire into a visit to New Zealand this week by the Indonesian Military Attache to New Zealand and Australia.

Reporters after today’s Cabinet meeting asked Mr Holyoake if he knew that the attache, due in New Zealand tomorrow on a regular visit,

is scheduled to tour Papakura military camp. “I am completely ignorant of his visit or his Itinerary here,” replied the Prime Minister.

When pressed to comment on the attache’s visit to Papakura, Mr Holyoake said he would make an inquiry about the matter.

“Routine Visit”

A New Zealand Army spokesman called the Indonesian attache’s visit a routine' one, and social in the sense that he will meet one or two officials. “He has been to Papakura many times before,” the spokesman said. “He will not be seeing any training activities at all.”

After paying formal calls in Wellington the attache, Colonel Sudioni, will arrive in Waiouru on Thursday. He will go to Auckland on March 9, where he will be met by the commander of the Northern Military District, Brigadier R. McK. Paterson, and visit Papakura that day. Colonel Sudioni will leave for Canberra the next day. S. Korean President

The Prime Minister said today that there were as yet no firm proposals for the South Korean President, Mr Chung Hee Park, to visit New Zealand. "There was an invitation issued some months ago,” he said.

A cable from Seoul yesterday said that the President was expected to visit New Zealand, Australia and South Vietnam later this year.