Scheme approved

Student holiday travel to the United States has received official Government confirmation.

The scheme is based on a reciprocal visit by American students in return for the visits by New Zealanders, and permission for the Americans to enter the country came in a letter from the Minister of Immigration, Mr. Shand, to the President of NZUSA, John McGrath.

The letter laid down that only 25 American students will be allowed in in the first instance for a maximum of four months, and that N.Z.U.S.A. will have to be responsible for finding jobs for these.

The only other condition is that all the students hold fully paid return tickets.

The American State Department has already agreed in principle to taking an equal number of New Zealand students, and is only waiting for official confirmation from here. The New Zealand Embassy in Washington has been requested to inform the State

Department of the arrangements that have been made.

McGrath said that there would be no real system for allocating places for the visit to America, and they would go to the first 25 to get their deposit in to the Student Travel Bureau.

If. however, there was an overwhelming majority from any one University, some effort will be made to try to spread the places more evenly.