Royal Flight Protest
(From Our Own Keportrr) AUCKLAND, Feb. 26. The Auckland branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society has written to the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake), protesting at the decision to fly the Royal family together in one plane when in New Zealand next month. In the letter the society expressed its deep concern over the Royal travel arrangements. The society said there was “widespread cqnsternation over this tempting of providence,” and expressed the hope that the Prime Minister would use his office “to cause those responsible to reconsider the wisdom of travelling the Sovereign and the heir apparent on a plane together.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32234, 28 February 1970, Page 19
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