AUSTRALIAN VISIT
OPPOSITION LEADER
For the purpose of obtaining" firsthand knowledge "of the war effort of Australia and of views there on many immediate and post-war problems, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. S. G. Holland), accompanied by Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, is making: a visit to the Commonwealth. He anticipates spending a month there. After visiting Canberra, Mr. Holland proposes visiting as many other parts of Australia as is possible in the time he has available. He hopes to meet all the leading political figures and proposes to make a first-hand study of questions of mutual interest to New Zealand and Australia. Before leaving Wellington, Mr. Holland said that New Zealand and Australia had developed close relations in time of war, and as their interests were so similar they would undoubtedly work closer together in the peace. He felt that the Opposition should oe kept fully abreast x>i development and thought in Australia, and he was taking the first opportunity to make personal contact.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 3
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168AUSTRALIAN VISIT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 3
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