China tour

NZSPA Reporter

A Repetition of this years tour of China next summer vacation is mainly up to the Communist authorities themselves, said the president of the New Zealand University students' Association (Mr. Ross Mountain).

He was commenting on student inquiries about a repeat of the recently completed tour of China by eleven New Zealand students with a party of Australians.

Mr. Mountain noted one comment by some of the students who had just returned that some Chinese officials had suggested that no more tourists should enter China until the "cultural revolution" was over.

To hold such a tour boat arrangements had to be worked out co-ordination with Australia formalised, and publicity, guidance and booking had to be provided by NZUSA.

All this could be done this year Mr. Mountain felt.

The cost for each student was more than £300. With China in such a state of ferment. Western news agencies paid handsomely for information and photographs from tourists: in this way prospective travellers might earn some cash, said Mr. Mountain.

"Of course, on the way to and from China stop-overs can be made in numerous other South East Asian countries."