League supports Integrity Centre
The Canterbury Progress League has decided to sup port the aims of the Integrity Centre. The centre's director (Mi N. M. Rush) approached the league at its meeting on Wednesday evening describing the centre’s aims anc asking for a letter of support. He said that 70 per cenl of New Zealanders wanted t better life style. He intendec lobbying the "powers tha; be” With the necessary evidence; seeking removal ol anything harmful to the nation’s integrity. “We could all encourage each other to be a little more honest, a little more caring,” he said. Opposing a motion that the league support the aims of the Integrity Centre, a member said: “We all share Mr Rush’s concern over crime and materialism, hut his approach is too simple. It is. after all, an attempt to change human nature and that is a very difficult thing to do.” Mrs M. E. Murray (Waimairi County Council) also opposed the motion. “I can’t see that you can legislate to make people better. How do we do it? Will it mean we establish a
s 'greater police state?” she -{said. -I Another Waimairi counI ciilor said that it was imr; possible to support the ;j centre’s aims without supi( porting the centre itself, so -|he opposed the motion. i
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