Singers guests of honour
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney The New Zealand rock group, Split Enz, making its swansong tour of Australia, put in a special guest appearance in Canberra during the week-end, at the home of the New Zealand High Commissioner, Sir Laurie Francis. Paul Hester, Neil Finn, Noel Crombie and Eddie
Rayner were guests of honour at a cocktail party thrown by the diplomat, who will be heading off on a swansong tour of the country himself soon, after the announcement that he is to be replaced by a career diplomat, Mr Graham Ansell.
“We had 30 to 40 people out on Sunday for the band and they were wonderful ambassadors for their country,” Sir Laurie said. “They also told me it was the first time since they had been in Canada some years ago that they had ever been invited to a New Zealand embassy.”
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