U.K. AVIATION SECRETARY
N.Z. Visit This Month
Mr John Stonehouse, Parliamentary Secretary of the British Ministry of Aviation, will arrive at Christchurch Airport on January 26 and will leave later in the day for Auckland to attend the official opening of Mangere Airport on January 29. Mr Stonehouse will fly from Britain in the British Aircraft Corporation BA 111 jet aircraft that will visit New Zealand for the opening ceremony.
He is one of the Co-opera-tive Party’s members of Parliament, a group supporting the Labour Government. Mr Stonehouse served with the Royal Air Force during the war, took a degree in economics, became manager of African co-operative societies and returned to Britain, eventually to hold the presidency of the Co-operative Society’s board of directors. j Elected to Parliament nine years ago, Mr Stonehouse represented Britain on the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Western European Union from 1962 to 1964. When Labour was in opposition, his chief interests were consumer and colonial and Commonwealth questions.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 10
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171U.K. AVIATION SECRETARY Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 10
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