“Monty” Due At Ohakea This Afternoon

Evening Star, Issue 26154, 16 July 1947, Page 4

“Monty” Due At Ohakea This Afternoon

WELLINGTON, July 16. Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery left Australia at 8,4 a,m. to-day, and was due at Ohakea at 2.44. After arrival he will drive to Gqt vernment House, Wellington.' To-mor-row morning there will be a Press conference, after which he will lay a wreath on the War Memorial, and then have with the Government. At 12.45 there is to be a State luncheon, and in the afternoon further discussions with the chiefs of staff and Army authorities. At-5 p.m. there will be a reception by returned men at the Grand Opera HSuse. On Friday there will be further discussions with Army authorities, and a civic reception at noon. Later he will visit the Disabled Servicemen’s Training Centre. After this he will-meet members of Parliament in the social hall of Par* liamenf House, following which there will be a services’ reception at the Hotel Waterloo.

At 9 a.m. on Saturday Lord Montgomery leaves for Invercargill, arriving there at noon. He will be given a civic reception, and will meet returned servicemen. Sunday morning will be spent in Invercargill, and in the. afternoon he will go to Dunedin, where on Monday he will inspect'the Disabled Men’s Training Centre and the Monte* cilto Home. He will attend a civic reception at noon. < • , Afterwards he will go on to Oamaru, where a brief reception will be tendered. From there he will go to Timaru, arriving at 5.45 p.m., receiving a reception .at the Theatre : Royal on arrival, , . ~v He will leave for Ghristchurch on Tuesday morning,, arriving . there at 11.32. He will be given a ’civic reception at the King EdwArd Barracks at noon. The afternoon‘ will be spent in visits to hospitals - seeing service patients, and he; \yid place a wreath on the memorial. Lord Montgomery’s car will bo 'easily recognised by tlie public throughout the tour, as. ft will be flying, a-Union Jack pennant from,the radiator.

He will leave Whenuapai on July 31. - \