Documentary On New Zealanders In U.K.

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32301, 20 May 1970, Page 3

Documentary On New Zealanders In U.K.

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, May 18. Production of a T.V. documentary about Australians and New Zealanders in Britain which includes a segment on the controversial visa entry permits began here last week. The documentary will be i shown on the Australian j Broadcasting Commission pro-i gramme “Four Corners’’ and on a similar programme in New Zealand.

The producer, Austin Mitchell, said during a break in filming at New Zealand House, London, that the documentary was intended to highlight problems of Australians who came to Britain as visitors or settlers. It would include interviews with Mf Max Hartwell—a Fellow of Nuffield College—Russell Braddon. author, and Ruth Nye, a concert pianist, who had all settled here. Mr Mitchell, a former lecturer in political science at Canterbury University, who conducted a T.V. news programme there, was interviewing the. chief correspondent

of the New Zealand Press Association, Mr Bruce Kohn. Mr Mitchell, a Yorkshireman, now working for Yorkshire Television, asked Mr Kohn about his troubles in getting an extension of his visa after his initial threeyear stay had expired. Mr Kohn said he "had trouble with the Home Office here when applying for the extension, in spite of the fact that his employers had wanted him to continue to work here. He had been given extensions of one month. But while still negotiating with the Home Office “A migration officer at Heathrow Airport gave me an extension to stay

(for an extra six months, just 1 like that,” Mr Kohn said. “If it had not been for Foreign Office intervention in the case last Christmas, it might well have been a travelling occasion,” he said. Mr Kohn urged the Australian and New Zealand Governments to take the initiative in starting negotiations with the British Government on the visa problem “to avoid embarrassment.” He said: “1 think the British have a point in the sense they wish to show they are fair to the African and Asian nations over this problem of visas.”

Williams For , U.S.

Tom Williams, the New Zealand singer who will appear in the new “Studio One” series, has been invited to perform in the United States.

Last year Williams appeared in a charity television I programme in Australia with Dinah Shore and with Eddie Albert, of “Green Acres.” The invitation to America has come from Eddie Albert.

Pilot Of Concorde

In “A Man Called Trubshaw —A Plane Called Concorde," 8.8.C.’s “Man Alive” presents the chief test pilot of the British Aircraft Corporation, Brian Trubshaw, who talks about the life of a man whose job it is to fly in a plane until it has been passed fit for passengers. He is seen in the British prototype of the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde and others like the famous V.C. 10. This documentary is in CHTV3’s Friday night programme.