Labour Party paper

Press, 28 November 1979, Page 20

Labour Party paper

Sir, — I cannot accept the Labour Party’s response to my recent letter regarding distribution of their newsletters and reports. A letter from Jim Anderton seeking financial support for a new headquarters building along with an eight-page newsletter accompanied by a letter from a member of Parliament cannot surely be classified as “personal correspondence.” From Mr Moore’s recent suggestions that the taxpayer funds party activities it is obvious that the Labour Party has and is already surreptitiously doing it, as witness his signature already in my possession. As a taxpayer I demand that the Labour Party, like every other political party, pays its own bills. If it is not capable of doing that, everybody should be made aware of the party’s lack of ability to administer even the financing of its own correspondence. — Yours, etc., T T nWF November 25, ’979.

Sir, —- If the Labour Party in Papanui is unable to find the money to pay the postage on its propaganda or too lazy to deliver it themselves, how can the family man, the pensioner, or the sick expect anything from them, except perhaps to be taken for granted. — Yours, etc., G. MOORE. November 22, 1979.