The Budget
Sir,—Relief that the price of milk was not raised has probably blinded people to faults in the Budget. I, for one, would have preferred a dramatic increase in overseas
aid to removal of the 10 per cent tax surcharge. I would also have liked to see more attention to individual cases, the case of finance for Mr Orme to take up his Churchill Fellowship being one that springs to mind. Mr Orme is one of the best speakers I have heard for the Maori cause. He is capable of influencing pakehas positively where some other Maoris merely antagonise. But the Government’s negative decision on his salary continuation, if not counter-balanced by some grant from the Maori Affairs Department, could easily turn a constructive Maori spokesman into a justifiably embittered Maori militant, whereupon the Government’s penny-saving might soon prove a very shortsighted piece of economy in-deed-—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. June 16, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 10
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