Labour’s proposals “already law”

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33073, 14 November 1972, Page 2

Labour’s proposals “already law”

(New Zealand Press Association) MASTERTON, November 13. The Labour Party’s proposals on law and order were suggesting no more than was already law, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) said tonight.

On close examination, the Labour Party’s attitude to law and order was quite incredible, he told an election meeting in Masterton.

“First, the courts already have power to immobilise offenders who use motor-cycles or motor-cars as their means of transport,” he said. “As part of the sentence they can make a person on probation dispose of his vehicle, and that is all that the Labour Party is proposing.” Mr Muldoon also told his audience the public was en-

titled to know before the election the names of people the Labour Party would make directors of the Reserve Bank, the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, the airlines, the National Roads Board and other public bodies.

He had no doubt, he said, that the first name on the list would be that of the President of the Federation of Labour (Mr T. E. Skinner). “At the Labour Party conference this year 48 trade union delegates had a total of 393 votes,” he said, “as against 368 votes for all the other delegates put together. “This means that the 48 trade union delegates, if they voted together, could pass or reject any motion and dominate the election to the national executive of the Labour Party.”