Dr. Austin Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canterbury discusses the history and functions of caucus in New Zealand Politics. Recorded at the Christchurch studios of The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.

The election address by the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Keith Holyoake, National Party candidate, Pahiatua.

Arnold Nordmeyer, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, is interviewed on the relationship between the Federation of Labour (FOL) and the Labour Party.

The 50th conference in the Wellington Town Hall.

Afternoon session

1. The Social Credit Political League outlined its election policy promising a 15 shilling increase in pensions within a year and subsidies on consumer goods such as butter, milk, flour and eggs. -- 2. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake's speech in Invercargill. -- 3. Leader of the Opposition Norman Kirk's speech from Oamaru. -- 4. The Presbyterian Church conference - Maori rights and Vietnam.

1. The Social Credit Political League outlined its election policy promising a 15 shilling increase in pensions within a year and subsidies on consumer goods such as butter, milk, flour and eggs. -- 2. Six American and one Korean soldier were killed today by North Koreans. -- 3. In court it has been put that the police acted unlawfully by stopping the Tiri (pirate radio ship) from putting to sea. -- 4. The Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation. -- 5. New Zealand brandy could compete with imported brandy. -- 6. Unmarried mothers.

"Is Britain to blame for Nigeria's troubles since independence?" Mr Ryan covers the following: Political atmosphere and the struggle for power; administrative problems and the lack of trained civil servants with the ability to govern; economics.

A discussion group questioning Mr Harrige's seminar on the Nigerian coup; the organisation of the coup; and motivations and influences.

Topics: the economic troubles in Ghana; collapse of the cocoa prices; bitterness of an underdeveloped country left at the mercy of the developed; economic build-up; wild loans and speculation; unproductive projects; overseas aid refused; International Monetary Fund reports and programmes, but money refused; turning to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; military coup of March 1966.

Topics: elections and the struggle for government; relations with the rest of the African federation.

A Political Studies Stage II lecture on African Socialism and Pan African-ism. Dr. Ruth Butterworth talks about: The background of urbanism with the difficulties and desirability; Africanism; the problems of independence and the need for Pan-Africanism; African socialism extended outside the natural boundaries; the importance of both in a drive to modernisation and a framework for confidence and a salve for bitterness.

1. Water weed in the Waikato lakes is threatening power generation. -- 2. The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) says producers should have wide responsibility to apply the corporations' policy. This is after the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Mr Gordon Bick. -- 3. The Public Service Association has called for an independent inquiry into Gordon Bick's resignation from the NZBC. 4. The NZ Racing Conference has agreed changes to its constitution. -- 5. The Prime Minister of Laos has told President Johnson he believes the Vietnam conflict cannot be settled by force of arms. -- 6. Plans for President Johnson's visit. News Review (08 min., 55 sec.) . 1. Plans for President Johnson's visit. -- 2. Too much violence on Television. -- 3. International co-operation for a White Russian.

Topics: Ghana, covering political development; the 1966 one party state; the character of Nkrumah himself; the background to the coup and the fall of Nkrumah. the significance of Ghana for one-party state politics; the communist black approach; the economic take-off point; pan-Africanism.

1. Senator William Fulbright on Vietnam. -- 2. The arrival and departure of President Johnson at Ohakia Air Base will be open to the public. -- 3. Zambia has called on Britain to admit economic sanctions on Rhodesia have failed. -- 4. National and Labour's election campaigns and conferences.

Topics: exploration of how relevant one party government can apply to Africa as a whole and Ghana in particular. Mr Bailey comes out against the one-party state. Ends with a discussion group

USA involvement in Vietnam. Speaker is Mr. J. J. Saunders, Reader in History, University of Canterbury.

1.The arrival and departure of President Johnson, and the Air Force's arrangements for his visit. -- 2. The Department of External Affairs is handling applications from foreign journalists wanting to cover the visit. 3. Gifts for the Johnson's.

Weekly interview and discussion programme from the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC), usually where a panel were posed a question to argue.

1. The International Wool Secretariat is meeting in Melbourne. Mr. W. J. Vines is interviewed. -- 2. Nuclear scientists are meeting in Wellington. Professor J. F. Duncan is interviewed. -- 3. A computer system for handling cargo will trial in the London docks. -- 4. Timber vs Aluminium in engineering. Mr D Evans is interviewed.

1. President Johnson is about to embark on a tour of the Pacific and South East Asia. -- 2. The arrival and departure of President Johnson at Ohakia Air Base will be open to the public. -- 3. Foreign newsmen are arriving in NZ to cover President Johnston's visit. -- 4. The UN Security council has asked Portugal not to allow foreign mercenaries to use Angola as a base for interfering in the Congo.

The opening election address my the Right Honourable Norman Kirk, Leader of the Labour Party.

1. Mr Wilson will meet the Queen to review the political honours system in Britain. -- 2. Russia officially ignored the second anniversary of Mr Khrushche's downfall. -- 3. Tiffany's jewellery store in Chicago has been robbed of most of its diamonds by gunmen.

1. The Labour Party's election manifesto was released tonight; -- 2. Tug and dredge strike. -- 3. The Federation of Labour and the negotiations over the Tongarero power project.

A debate on South East Asia with Hugh Watt MP, Labour Party, Onehunga; B Mason; Robert Muldoon, MP, National Party, Tamaki

1. Requests for adjustments to state Superannuation allowances refused. -- 2. President Johnson will not have a ticker tape welcome in Wellington as the Mayor Sir Francis Kitts has not approved it. -- 3. South Vietnam's Minister of Finance threatens to resign as the government is dominated by North Vietnamese. -- 4. The Prime Minister has been getting threats of violence, upsetting to his family. -- 5. The Market Development Committee wants 10% of meat exports to go to countries outside Britain. -- 6. NATO has only half the forces it needs to fight a conventional war outside Europe. -- 7. Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper did not publish today because of a labour dispute. -- 8. A species of Wallaby, the Palmer or White Throated, thought to have been extinct in Australia since 1926, has been found on Kauwau Island, taken there by Sir George Grey. -- 9. Sports news

7:00pm News. 1. President Johnson has arrived in Hawaii. -- 2. An earthquake of nearly 8 on the Richter Scale in Peru has caused a tidal wave which may hit the Hawaiian Islands. -- 3. The Committee on Vietnam say the Dominion Newspaper in Wellington has refused to print their advertisement. -- 4 The search for gas an oil in NZ has been largely unsuccessful needing to make the maximum use of coal. -- 5. The government has announced increased budget spending. -- 6. Some University salaries are to be increased. -- 7. Grants for teachers at rural schools are being debated. -- 8. Fifty tons of Australian pennies are being shipped to NZ to relieve the current shortage. -- 9. Lloyd's Shipping says atomic powered ships are uneconomic. Also they don't agree that large aeroplanes will replace passenger ships within 10 years. -- 10. A Kiwi chick has hatched at a game park in Whangarei. -- 11. The prosecution of Dr Sabandrio of Indonesia for treason is summing up in Jakata. -- 12. French conversion of dollars into American gold could lead to a collapse of the world's monetary system. -- 13. Sports. News Review (11 min., 6 sec.) 1. President Johnson has left America on a tour of the Pacific and South East Asia. -- 2. Mr John Butler on the Common Market. -- 3. Economically Britain is on the upgrade according to MP J. Matheson.

The Social Credit Political league's opening election address, by leader Vernon Cracknell

An outline of the plans for President Johnson's visit to New Zealand.

1. Arrangements for President Johnson's visit. -- 2. Staff to replace the returning medical team at Qui Nhon hospital in Vietnam will be recruited immediately. -- 3. The US Defence Secretary has arrived in Vietnam on an inspection tour. -- 4. New Zealand's decimal currency coins are being made in London at the Royal mint. -- 5. Planning for a new women's' prison near Christchurch is well in hand. -- 6. Nepal is reconsidering charging duty on Sir Edmund Hilary's hospital expedition. -- 7. Import controls being considered in NZ. -- 8. The four day Air Force exercise 'Butterfly' will begin at Napier tomorrow. -- 9. Tenders have closed for the construction of the iron and steel works at Waiuku -- 10. other news News Review (08 min.,17 sec.). 1. Arrangements for President Johnson's visit, and how to manage 300 officials and journalists, and how the old inter island ferry "Hinemoa" may have to come out of retirement to accommodate them.

P. J. Downie of Wellington talks about "Free Speech", as this week a number of issues have come up which involve the right of free speech, including Radio Hauraki, Gordon Bick's resignation from the Television programme "Compass", and the universities versus the Security Service. Also Lloyd Geering's controversy with the Presbyterian Church.

Topics: Post 1963 happenings; main reasons for the coup; colonial history - the Gold Coast; the Communist party and Nkrumah; the 1954 election and the result; independence and the move towards the one-party state; Nkrumah rational for the one-party state; livelihoods and their effects

1. An earthquake of nearly 8 on the Richter Scale in Peru has killed hundreds and caused a tidal wave which may hit the Hawaiian Islands. -- 2. President Johnson pledges full US co-operation in the 'new emerging Asia'. -- 3. The Committee on Vietnam say the Dominion Newspaper in Wellington has refused to print their advertisement. -- 4. Governor General Sir Bernard Ferguson was mistakenly introduced as Sir Bernard Freyberg, for the 29th time since he arrived here. -- 5. The government has provided extra money for the Kapuni Natural Gas project. -- 6. Otago Medical School has made some progress in reducing death from coronary disease. -- 7. The prosecution of Dr Sabandrio of Indonesia for treason is summing up in Jakarta. -- 8. Six members of the Fiji Elective council were named today.

Austin Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Canterbury, talks about three contrasting elections, South Africa, Malta and Britain and the politics of determinism.

Live commentary on President Lyndon Johnson's welcome to Ohakea. Firstly, Air Force One arriving at RNZAF Base Ohakea, and then his departure to Wellington city.

1. The Prime Minister replied to a statement by the President of the Wellington Committee on Vietnam, Barry Mitcalfe (saying they will not demonstrate provided they can have an interview with President Johnson) by saying it would be an impertinence. -- 2. The University Students' Association has dissociated itself from any demonstrations which may occur during President Johnson's visit.-- 3. Keith Holyoake (PM) and the Australian PM, Harold Holt will attend the Manilla Conference on Vietnam. -- 4. Dr A. M. Finlay has reservations about the Crimes Amendment Bill. -- 5. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Brown, will go to Moscow next year with a peace plan for Vietnam. -- 6. The Postmaster General says it's unethical to record another person without their knowledge and there are penalties for this (with reference to the Bick Affair). -- 7. Thefts from the Ponsonby Police Station. -- 8. The NZ police have found no trace of three missing Australian children here. -- 9. Manufacturers say NZ needs to increase exports. -- 10. Submissions for an International Air Freight terminal at Wanganui. -- 11. Pipeline for Kapuni gas. -- 12. - Insecticides for incoming flights. 12. other news. News Review (10 min., 38 sec.). 1. The Prime Minister replied to a statement by the President of the Wellington Committee on Vietnam, Barry Mitcalfe (saying they will not demonstrate provided they can have an interview with President Johnson) by saying it would be an impertinence.

Dr. J. R. Flynn of the University of Canterbury talks about the growing disillusionment of the left in the USA under President Johnson's Administration

Live commentary on President Lyndon Johnson's welcome to Wellington, featuring his motorcade through Wellington city.

Austin Mitchell gives a summary of the 1966 British General Election, the day after the election (in New Zealand).

1. Importing more cars from Japan if more NZ exports go there. -- 2. All the credit raised from the Australian Reserve Bank has been used. -- 3. A record year for Stewart Island crayfish exports. -- 4. Peru's earthquake yesterday has killed at least 117 people. -- 5. Britain denies torturing terrorist suspects in Aden, -- 6. President Johnson's arrival. -- 7. Ministers are resigning from the South Vietnamese cabinet. News Review (03 min., 47sec.). 1. President Johnston's arrival. 2. New Zealand's delegate to the United Nations addresses the General Assembly.

7:00pm News. 1. The fire at the Sanitarium Health Food Company's factory in Christchurch broke out in the peanut roasting department when vegetable oil caught alight. -- 2. The Minister of Broadcasting said today that former Television producer, Gordon Bick, has made misleading statements and allegations to make political capital. Yesterday a transcript of a telephone conversation between a member of the Decimal Currency Board and Mr Bick was published in several newspapers. -- 3. Prime Minister, Mr Holyoake wants the Committee on Vietnam to abandon its plans to demonstrate during President Johnson's visit. -- 4. The old inter-island ferry, Hinemoa, will be used as an hotel for visiting US press and officials. -- 5. The Arbitration Court has finished hearing the Labour Party's application for a general wage order. -- 6. Russian Foreign Minister, Mr Gromyko, says both Russia and America are trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. -- 7. Transport law changes introduced into parliament. -- 8. The rules around election broadcasts. News Review (9 min., 9 sec.). 1. Using the ferry Hinemoa as accommodation for the visiting press corps. -- 2. University students attitude to Honorary degrees. -- 3. Transport workers conference in Dunedin.

Commentary on President Johnson's visit at Civic Square in Wellington. Commentary follows the motorcade through Wellington passing backwards and forwards between the commentators.

1. the varieties of Communism in Europe. -- 2. parallels with the Christian churches. -- 3. the effects of communism on the social systems of Eastern Europe. -- 4. achievements and the future. 5. a question and answer session.

A report on President Johnson's visit to New Zealand with descriptions of the reception at the ballroom; Mrs Johnson's clothing; hair styles, the décor, the guest list, and the Maori concert at Victoria University theatre.

1. Reverend Oestricher's background. -- 2. His book 'The Marxist Christian Dialogue'. -- 3. The importance of Marxist economic analysis. -- 4. The divisions of the rich/poor, black/white. -- 5. The revolution that must come.

1. An explanation of personal faith over organised religion.

Topics: Background and reasons for the Nigerian coup; organisation of the coup; motivations and influences.