Joke taken seriously
PA Westport A Westport trade unionist, Mr Norman Evans, has explained remarks he made at the time the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) released the names of members of the Socialist Unity Party earlier this year.
The explanation reads: “Shortly after the Prime Minister’s list of Socialist Unity Party members was published, Mr Evans was at the office of the ‘Westport News’ when he jocularly remarked that he was annoyed at not being on the list of members and that he felt like putting a call through to the Prime Minister to ask him to put the matter right. “However the ‘Westport News’ took the matter seriously. “Far from being a member of the Socialist Unity Party, Mr Evans is a long-serving member of the Labour Party, during which time he has been an executive officer of the Buller Labour Party and since the West Coast electorate was formed, of the Buller branch of the West Coast Labour Party. Moreover, he had !. aen a member of the panel which selected Mr Kerry Burke two years ago to succeed the late Mr Blanchfield as Labour's candidate for the West Coast.”
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