"VERY; LITTLE TO ASK NEW ZEALAND"

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 8, 10 July 1922, Page 8

" VERY; LITTLE TO ASK NEW ZEALAND"

,' ;"I bays • very; little to ask New Zealand," 'remarked Mr.. Sastri to a Post reporter fyx-day:'.;* "S'Mnderstand that our people... in New Zealand only number about 200;-and.,'' he added, "they havo already got the franchise. There are, however, ■ several 'small matters •in ' regard to which I need not trouble the liublic. I think I can make satisfactory arrangements with the Government in regard to these small details. ■ My task here will, therefore,-simply be to understand New Zealand and to make India understood by New Zealand. A good ■deal remains, I think, to ba done in that ■direction." ........

-'A civic reception'will'be tendered to iM|\ Sastt-i in t' Mayor's room to-mor-row, _at _ 11.45 a.m. Afterwards, Mr. Sastii will be welcomed by the Govorn:n*ent at a luncheon at Parliament Buildings. Members of both Houses of Parliament will attend the luncheon. In tlfe. evening, the distinguished visitor will be;; a guest of His Excellency the Governor at dinner at Government Hou.se. %\n iiwitationby .the Wellington Itaeing Club to their Whiter Meeting at 'J'rontham on Wednesday, has beort acsepted.- In the evening there will be a, tefjeption by the New Zealand India Club.

fhi Thursday. Mr,', Saatri will ,bo the nbjef speaker at the Rotary. Club InnAeon, and iir the'afternoon he. will at»nd a, "reception ~a.t the 'V.M.C.A. On Friday he will be theTiesb at the New J^land Clab;"hjJioheon; ;; ~:\. ■ '■„.';.,.