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Mr Savage is still Prime Minister of New Zealand, according to an item in London’s Sunday Express. Announcing that the King and Queen would leave on their Empire tour at the end of November, at the earliest, the paper added: “Mr Chifley and Mr Savage, Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, will fly N to London in the next two or three months to discuss arrangements with the King and Queen if their domestic political commitments permit.” Ignoring the difference in rail gauges of Australian State railways, the different gauge again in New Zealand, and the difficulties of shipping, the paper gravely states that an “important question” will the provision of a special train for the Royal tour, the construction to be paid for entirely by the two Dominions.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 92, 8 September 1948, Page 5
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