Bastion Point talks
PA Auckland A meeting between the Bastion Point protesters, Ngati Wltatua tribal' elders and the Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Maclnyre) will be held later this week. The president of the New Zealand Maori Council (Mr G. S. Latimer) said that Mr Maclntyre had agreed to the meeting but no date had been set. He said that the Minister had agreed to meet a small deputation from both the protesters and the elders. Yesterday the former Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Rata) joined a meeting of the protesters in the meeting house they have erected on Bastion Point. Mr Rata said that he told the protesters that the Government were looking for any confrontation to take the "heat” off its economic problems. At the protest village yesterday numbers had swelled with the arrival of about 40 supporters from other parts of the country. There was no indication that the protesters intended to heed the Government ultimatum to leave Bastion Point. In a prepared staement Mr JOe Hawke, spokesman for the Orakei Maori Committee action group, described the Government ultimatum as another attempt to "intimidate and harrass.”
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