Ambassador to visit Chch
The recently-appointed Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (Mr L. H. Border) will make his first official visit to the South Island next week. Mr Border and his wife will spend six days in Christchurch from Tuesday, February 28, until Monday, March 6. They will attend a number of official engagements in Christchurch, beginning with a call on the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr Hamish Hay) on Tuesday.
Mr Border will visit the University of Canterbury on Wednesday morning and Lincoln College on Thursday morning. On Thursday evening he will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Christ-
church Branch of the Institute of International Affairs. He will visit Lyttelton on Friday morning and the Antarctic Wing of the Canterbury Museum in the afternoon. and attend the opening of the Christchurch Arts Festival at the Town Hall on Saturday evening. Before he accepted the New Zealand post, Mr Border aged 57, was Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, for three years. He has also served as Ambassador to Burma, Vietnam, and Pakistan, and he was deputy-secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs from 1971-74.
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