Second double booking

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33958, 26 September 1975, Page 2

Second double booking

(N.Z. Press owetarton) MASTERTON, Sept 25. Confusion over the double booking of the Dunedin Town Hall for a political meeting addressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Muldoon) and the South Island Maori Netball Association which has resulted in a wrangle between the Minister of Tourism (Mrs TirikateneSullivan) and the Dunedin “Evening Star,” recalls a similar incident that arose in Masterton during the l»*»S General Election Campaign.

On Tuesday, November 25. IM*. Mrs TirikateneSulhvan was to have addressed a meeting in the social room of the Masterton Town Hall. She ar-

rived to find that the hall • had also been hooked by the then Deputv Prime Minister Mr Marshall (now Sir John Marshall). Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan’s meeting was transferred to the eocktail lounge of the Emoire Hotel.

The following dav. in a supolied statement. Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan said she had made the booking bv telephone three weeks previously. "It was not unreasonable.” she said, “to suppose that the National Partv organisation in the Wairarana had called in the assistance of the Deputy Prime Minister in a desnerate last-minute effort in this marginal electorate tn offset the momentum of the increasing ponularitv ♦hat Labour’s leader. Mr Kirk, was gainin" throughout the country." The National Partv de-

nied her claims and showed that it had hooked the hall two months previously.