No N.Z. staff at tracking station
New Zealanders will not help man the Mount John satellite tracking station in the meantime, says the Prime Minister (Mr Rowling) in a letter to the Campaign Against Foreign Control in New Zealand.
i It had not been possible i to find any scientific programme in New Zealand sufificiently connected with I space-vehicle tracking to justify the cost of New Zeaj landers helping to man the 'Station, says Mr Rowling. He was commenting on a statement made by the former Prime Minister (Mr Kirk) when he returned from a visit to the United States last year that negotiations to have the station staffed half by New Zealanders were almost comI pleted. “Although the possibility of New Zealand participation . in the staffing of Mount John has not been dropped, it is in abeyance for the time being,” says Mr Rowling. The presence of New Zealand civilians to assuage con-
cern about the station’s operation by American servicemen was of overriding importance, he says. Photographic information from the station was available to New Zealand scientists and the station was open.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 7
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