N.Z. gets goat of Goon
NZPA staff correspondent London The comedian, Spike Milligan, widely known as a rugby fanatic, has used the Bastion Point controversy to earn himself a free dinner and a debate on the merits of the All Blacks. The former Goon took issue with a letter to the “Guardian” from the public affairs officer at the New Zealand High Commission (Mr M. J. Taylor), which said that the Bastion Point squatters were there illegally. “How can Mr Taylor
accuse Maoris of illegally squatting when in fact the white colonisation of New Zealand was done by this very same illegal process?” he said. Milligan also wrote a personal letter to Mr Taylor. “I am available to be taken to dinner to be talked out of my point of v’ w, and I am also willing to talk for ever about the All Blacks,” he said. Mr Taylor said he would take up Milligan on his offer. He will invite an All Black, Lawrie Knight, as well, for verbal support.
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