N.Z.P.A. news briefs

Press, 14 June 1976, Page 2

N.Z.P.A. news briefs

Public control A former Auckland Regional Authority member, Professor J. Morton, has called for the public control of the buying and selling of rural land zoned for development. Savings rush New Zealanders last week pumped more than slm a day into private savings banks in what is believed to be the biggest weekly savings for at least 10 years. Until Wednesday, the savings banks handled savings totalling s6m. Financial circles believe that recession fears caused the increase. Died in cells An elderly man who had been arrested for drunkenness died in the Auckland central police cells last night. He was Mate King! Davis, aged 65, of Ponsonby. A police patrol found Mr Davis. He was drunk, incoherent and had been iil. 'Duplicity* The former Labour Minister of Finance, Mr R. J. Tizard, has accused the Government of “cynical duplicity” over international loans. Commenting on the latest overseas loan, of slo2m, he said the Government was continuing to show that what it said was not related to what it did. 'Discrimination* Allegations that some schools have expelled students because they are foster children were made on Saturday by delegates to the New Zealand Foster Care Federation conference, which passed a resolution “affirming that no foster children should be discriminated against in education simply because of being foster children.”

P.S«4. appointment The new general secretary of the Public Service Association will be Mr W. B. Tucker of Wellington. Mr Tucker, the assistant secretary (trade policy) of the Department of Trade and Industry, replaces the late Mr D. P. Long. Subsidised workers The Government will subsidise employers who hire workers registered as unemployed in the Whangarei and Gisborne employment districts. The Minister of Labour (Mr Gordon) said the Government had recognised the special unemployment problems faced by these two areas. Minor surgery Sir Arnold Nordmeyer, will be admitted to Wellington Public Hospital today for a minor operation. Disaster aid Corso will send $5OOO to aid victims of the Philippines flood disaster, it has been announced. On May 24 Typhoon Olga devastated the important rice-producing island of Luzon in the Philippines, killing 47 persons and leaving 25,000 homeless. The island was declared a disaster area. Mr Nepia criticised

A new organisation, Massey University Students Against Racial Discrimination, has criticised Mr George Nepia’s decision to go to South Africa for the All Blacks’ tour. Mr Nepia was Invited to South Africa by the South African Rugby Board. The organisation says Mr Nepia was excluded from the 1928 All Black tour of South Africa because he was a Maori. 1

Rail stoppage The Government has no contingency plans to deal with tiie railwaymen’s stoppage, the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) says. South Island railwaymen will stop work for 24 hours on June 23 and North Island railwaymen the next day. Mr Muldoon said he could not understand why they intended to stop work. “On the one hand they complain about not getting enough pay, on the other they’re prepared to deliberately forgo a day’s pay. I don’t see the logic in that.” No M.R.P. revival The Government would not take any action to revive the maximum retail price scheme, or to implement any alternatives, the Minister of Trade and Inti u s t r y (Mr AdamsSchneider) told the annual conference of the Sports Goods Industries Association in Rotorua. The Minister said that over the last three years investigations by his department and discussions with trade groups had “failed to find an alternative scheme which did not suffer from the deficiencies of the illfated M.R.P. scheme." 'Keep pushing* The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Rowling), on Friday urged a group of Nelson, Marlborough, and Westport local bodies to keep pressing for the proposed road link between Karamea and Collingwood. Speaking at the League of Local Bodies annual meeting in Nelson, Mr Rowling said it was highly unlikely that there would be any action on this during the present . financial year, but urged members to “keep the initiative going”.