‘Govt should take more from tour meeting’
PA Wellington The Government should take a much more positive approach to extracting a result from Tuesday’s meeting on the Springbok tour, said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Rowling) yesterday.
In a statement commenting on the meeting of all the factions concerned with the tour, Mr Rowling said the Government should “take a much more active role in achieving a positive result.”
It was now essential that the Government itself pull together the various suggestions that had come forward and develop common ground, he said.
“Sitting back and waiting, hoping the other parties will solve the situation, is not enough,” Mr Rowling said.
“The Government must
take the ultimate responsibility.”
More work needed to be done to develop some of the suggestions that had been put forward at Tuesday’s meeting which brought together the Rugby Union and the police with pro-tour and antitour groups, Mr Rowling said.
Criticising the attitude of the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights (5.P.1.R.), Mr Rowling said its attitude was “totally uncompromising.” All the groups involved should be prepared to continue the dialogue which had now been established.
“But the rigidity of S.P.I.R. in the face of the crisis facing the country must put its motives in question,” he said.
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