Duke in BSIP
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in March
The Duke of Edinburgh has approved a provisional itinerary for his visit to the Pacific next year.
It is expected that he will begin his British Solomon Islands visit at Gizo where he will arrive on March 19.
The rest of the proposed itinerary is: March 19, Honiara; March 20, Malaita Island; March 21, Graciosa Bay (Santa Cruz ); March 22, depart for Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
The Duke will be travelling in the Royal Yacht “Britannia”.
His Islands tour is an exten sion of a visit to Singapore which he intended to visit during his 1956-57 world cruise (which took in the Melbourne • Olympics ) but which he had to < cancel because of political 1 trouble in Singapore.