Lord Shackleton for N.Z. visit
NZPA staff correspondent London
Lord Shackleton, son of the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, will visit New Zealand at the end of next month.
Lord Shackleton, aged 71, the former deputy chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc and present chairman of Anglesey Aluminium, will visit the Tiwai point aluminium smelter and plans to do some fishing.
He told NZPA that there were no plans for him to see any Ministers while he was in New Zealand. He dismissed- a report in the London “Daily Express” newspaper that he would be
taking with him a proposal for New Zealand to take responsibility for the future of the Falkland Islands.
“There is no truth in any suggestion that New Zealand should be invited to take over the Falklands,” he said.
Lord Shackleton, whose father was buried at the remote Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia, is the author of a 1976 report on the future of the Falklands economy. He recently updated this at the request ot the Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher.
The latest report recommends the spending of more than $2.3 million in a fiveyear plan. The Government has said that an urgent but careful study was being made before any decisions were taken. Lord Shackleton, who was a Labour member of Parliament for nine years before losing his seat in 1955, was made a life peer in 1958.
He was leader of the House of Lords from 1968 to 1970 and Leader of the Opposition in the Lords from 1970 to 1974.
Lord Shackleton, probably the only Eskimo-speaking member of the House of Lords, has had a number of trouble-shooting assignments, including the 1977 inquiry into Britain's anti-terrorism laws.
He plans to visit the Antarctica Centre in Christchurch and will probably stay with Lord Elworthy, who lives near Timaru, while he is in New Zealand.
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