Sports decisions
Sir, — The Olympics are in the news and what the Prime Minister said should be under examination. On March 11, 1980. in a weekly newspaper, the Prime Minister was quoted as saying: “New Zealand is being quoted in the United States qs one of the countries supporting the boycott, but that is not precisely correct. On the issue of the boycott, we take our firm policy line that the decisions are a matter for the sports bodies and individual sportsmen and not for the Government. In this we differ from Australia which appears ready to prevent Australians from competing in Moscow.” Two months later in a Press Association report, our Minister of Recreation and Sport said: “Mr Taiboys has sent the Rugby Union a strong letter” (re Springbok tour). I hark back to a passage in a recent National Party manifesto:. “If you were to sum up the philosophy of the National Party, it can be said in one word — freedom.” That
would now seem to have a hollow ring about it. — Yours, etc., R. A. COOK. June 13, 1980.
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