Heavy itinerary for N.Z. Parliamentary party

Press, Issue 32535, 19 February 1971, Page 11

Heavy itinerary for N.Z. Parliamentary party

IN.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Feb. 18. A heavy itinerary awaits four New Zealand members of Parliament, including the Speaker (Sir Roy Jack), who will arrive in London at the week-end to spend a month in Britain. Appointments made include everything from lunch with the Prime Minister (Mr Heath) to Rugby at Twickenham and golf at St Andrews. . Members of the New Zealand party, apart from Sir Roy Jack, are the Government Whip (Mr H. P. Lapwood) and two Opposition members, Mr W. A. Fraser (St Hilda) and Dr A. M. Finlay (Henderson).

i In Britain the party will i at various times visit Scot- ■ land Yard, pollution research • units, forestry stations, law I courts, housing and road re- : search units, 8.8. C. and Ini dependent Television studios, i the “open” university, a com- : puter centre, an aircraft faci tory, car-assembly works, I new bousing estates, a new ■ town, a whisky distillery, the House of Commons, a

container dock at Tilbury, the Post Office (if reopened), a nuclear power station, and the Institute of Management. Special emphasis will be placed on new British moves in social security, and on the controversial Industrial elations Bill.