Tea And Steak Breakfast In Australia Week

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31001, 5 March 1966, Page 21

Tea And Steak Breakfast In Australia Week

Christchurch travel agents will be drinking billy tea and eating steak and eggs for breakfast next week. The breakfast will be part of the Australian image which will be projected at the Horticultural Hall from March 7 to 11. The celebrations will begin on Monday evening when the newly-appointed Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (Mr D. W. McNicol) will officially open Australia Week at a wine and cheese buffet for 250 guests, in the Horticultural Hall.

Sponsored by the Australian National Travel Association, Air New Zealand, An-sett-ANA, 8.0.A.C., Qantas Airways and Trans Australia Airlines, with the Australian Department of Trade, the week is designed to bring to one place the attractions and development of Australia with an emphasis on tourism. The Horticultural Hall will be completely given over to Australian displays, which will feature wild flowers, a decimal currency exhibition, a model of the new Wentworth Hotel in Sydney, a

model of the Campbelltown civic development scheme, photographic displays, fashion parades, a film programme and a "Jet to Aussie” radio quiz. There will also be many small and novel displays showing the tourist attractions of Australia. On Tuesday and Thursday travel agents from Christchurch will be served steak and billy tea breakfasts at 7.45 a.m. while they listen to guest speakers from participating airlines talk on subjects of practical interest to them in promoting travel across the Tasman. Seven girls from the airlines will answer questions: Miss Marie Travaire, Trans Australia Airlines women’s travel adviser from Melbourne; Miss Priscilla Chen, a 8.0.A.C. flight stewardess from Hong Kong; Miss Nisha Syed, a 8.0.A.C. flight stewardess from Bombay; Miss Elaine Hunter, Qantas women’s travel adviser in New Zealand; Mrs Diane Moxham, from Air New Zealand, Sydney; and Miss Betty Lalor, from Ansett-ANA, Melbourne.