Will Honour Promise
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, May 5. Because of an election promise, the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) and two other senior Ministers will have no rest tomorrow. They will fly to Wanganui, with several departmental heads and officials, to listen to Wanganui demands for a greater share in New Zealand progress. Mr Holyoake promised last November when in Wanganui to visit the city with members of his Cabinet to discuss Wanganui problems on their own ground. After arrangements were made, however, the dates for the S.E.A.T.O. and A.N.Z.U.S. conferences in Washington were fixed. He wrote to the Wanganui
mayor expressing his apologies, and stating that Mr Marshall, his deputy, would head the Ministerial party. Local body members were bluntly critical of this. Mr Holyoake then fixed tomorrow as the date —not anticipating at the time the possible cumulative effects of
the overseas trip, the opening of the Parliamentary session, and the events of the last week. To all this, Wanganui has added a six-hour programme, the first event in which will be a helicopter trip over Kaitoke, Wanganui’s site for a jet airport.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31362, 6 May 1967, Page 14
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186Will Honour Promise Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31362, 6 May 1967, Page 14
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