‘Knock for six’ rebounds
PA Wellington! A 1972 election slogan of : the late Mr Norman Kirk —) to “Knock inflation for six”! — returned to haunt an em-| barrassed Labour member in! Parliament yesterday. Mr R. O. Douglas, the! member for Manukau, re-J ferred in a notice of motion) to promises the National! Party had made before the). 1975 General Election, these) included, he said, the promise! to “Knock inflation for six,”! The statement was greeted, with squeals of delight and cries of “Its yours” from Government members and prompted the Prime Minister, (Mr Muldoon) to say that the phrase had been used in the Labour Party election! policy in 1972. “It’s a matter of common: knowledge that those words, are the words of Norman!
i[Kirk, Mr Muldoon said. I .1 “You know it, I know it, s J we all know it.” i ■) A smiling Mr Douglas said •he was happy to change the I 1 1 wording if the notice of : motion upset the Government, but was accused by a ; I jovial Mr Muldoon of at-11
tempting to extricate himself from a hole of his own making. The speaker (Mr J. R. Harrison), said he would study the notice and ask Mr Douglas whether he could authenticate the statements made in it.
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