Congressmen on visit to N.Z.
A delegation of United States Congressmen will arrive in Christchurch early tomorrow morning.
They are from the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee,
and are visiting New Zealand as part of a trip through Pacific and East Asian countries.
Six of the group, and a staff director, will go to McMurdo Base. The others will visit the synthetic fuel project at New Plymouth and the Wairakei geothermal fields.
The group going to Antarctica will leave early on Monday. and return on Wednesday evening.
A representative ot the National Science Foundation. Mr Walter Seelig. said the delegates would look at the Antarctic base station and scientific programmes.
They will leave for Aus tralia’on Thursday.
Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, led by its chairman, Mr G. V. Montgomery, will visit Christchurch on January 12 and 13 to see the United States Navy’s Antarctic Support Force Base.
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