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Sunday, 20 September

1020

Evening

Arrive Napier Airport

Visit sheep farm in the Napier area and lunch on farm Dinner with Sir John and Lady Ormond at Wallingford

Monday, 21 September

1220

1500

1515

1600

1700

1745-1830

2000

Visit farm en route for Palmerston Arrive Wellington Airport

Lunch at "Homewood" with British High Commissioner Call on Prime Minister (Right Hon. K. J. Holyoake, CH) Meeting with Ministers of the Cabinet

Call on Right Hon. J. R. Marshall

Meet members of the New Zealand Dairy and Meat Boards Informal gathering with Combined Producer Boards Dinner party at "Homewood"

Tuesday, 22 September

0930

0945-1200

Call on Right Hon. J. R. Marshall

Meeting with Cabinet Committee on Overseas Trade Policy Call on Leader of Opposition

Call on Prime Minister

Parliamentary Luncheon

Visit House of Representatives in Session

1205

1235

1245

1430

1500

News Media conference

1830

Leave Wellington for Auckland

2130

Leave Auckland for Nandy

0055

Leave Nandy for Los Angeles, en route for Mexico and London

Document No. 19

RECORD OF A PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE RIGHT HON. GEOFFREY RIPPON, QC, MP, CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, ON ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND AIRPORT ON 17 SEPTEMBER, 1970

Question: Can you spell out, Sir, exactly what you regard as a satisfactory agreement?

Mr. Rippon: Certainly not. Of course I can't do that. We are going into the negotiations on the basis that there is a special problem of New Zealand. I think this has been recognised right from the outset, not only by the United Kingdom but by the Community themselves. As a special problem, we've got to look at it in depth and we've got to find the sort of solutions that can't be covered entirely as other people's problems may be, simply by transitional arrangements.

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