Gift Offers Total $5000
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 17. Gifts totalling about $5OOO have been offered by individuals to bring three overseas speakers to New Zealand to attend the “Peace, Power and Politics in Asia” conference in Wellington later this month. The conference committee chairman (Mr A. Taylor) said on Saturday that the response to the Reserve Bank’s refusal of overseas funds to bring the men here had been “spontaneous and tremendous.”
But, he said, in spite of these offers, the conference organisers wanted to proceed through normal channels. “Yesterday we consulted with the Prime Minister’s staff and were told that he would be unable to see a delegation about this matter at any time during the next week,” Mr Taylor said. “We have no wish to see the Minister of Finance on this matter—he has made his position quite clear, but it seems there is no alternative and arrangements have been made for a delegation to see the Minister early next week, possibly on Monday or Tuesday.”
The delegation would include representatives of the Federation of Labour, trades unions and councils, universities and other important publie groups.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31631, 18 March 1968, Page 1
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