MINISTERS FOR AMERICA
INDEPENDENT MISSIONS. (Press Assn,) AUCKLAND, May 16. Two New Zealand Ministers, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates (member ot the War Cabinet) and Hon. F. W. Langstone (Minister of Lands) will leave for the United States shortly on independent missions. Mr Coates will discuss the supply of munitions „and .\lr Langstone wdl discuss trade, as well as making preliminary arrangements for the establishment of a New Zealand legation at Washington. Air Coates, who arrived from the south to-day, does not expect to be away more than two months.. He will bo accompanied by his private secretary (Mr E. L. Officer). Mr Langstone, with departmental officers and his private secretary (Mr B. R. Turner! is expected to arrive from Wellington to-morrow morning. He. will have with him Mr G. A. Duncan (Director of the Marketing Department) and Air L. J. Schmitt, oi the Aliuistry or Supply. In a statement to-night, Air Coates said that for some months he had been privileged to serve on the War Cabinet. He regarded the invitation to visit Washington as a further opportunity of a service which he was eager to undertake to the best of his ability.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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194MINISTERS FOR AMERICA Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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