STUDY TOUR OF FAR EAST

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32053, 30 July 1969, Page 18

STUDY TOUR OF FAR EAST

A study tour of the Far East has been arranged by the Department of University Extension at the University of Otago for May next year. The itinerary will include Hong Kong, Japan, Bangkok and Singapore.

About 30 persons are expected to go on the 30-day tour which will leave Christchurch for two days in Hong Kong early in May. The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong has arranged study sessions on the political, social and economic facets of the colony, as well as a tour relating to the sessions.

After leaving Hong Kong the group will spend 18 days in Japan, concentrating on the southern part of the main island of Honshu, with time spent at Tokyo, Nikko, Hakone, Nagoya, Kyoto, Nara, Uji-Yamada and Osaka and “Expo 70.” An important tour in Kyoto includes visits to art and craft centres such as a dyeing factory, the silk museum, a woodblock printing studio and lacquerware factory. At other times the emphasis will be on modern industry, electronics and cultured pearl production and crafts. The party will spend three days in Bangkok and then go to Singapore where the ExtraMural Department of the University of Singapore has prepared an itinerary and study-programme. This will include tours of Singapore’s present major development plans.

The tour organisers will employ a specially prepared

correspondence course under the title “Background to Modern Japan”, and may run a series of classes in Dunedin.

Two days of group study

will be held in Christchurch before the party leaves New Zealand.