Return home?
NZPA staff correspondent • Sydney New Zealanders would automatically return home from overseas if there was a change of government next month, according to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Rowling). “I perceive that we need a dramatic event in this country to bring a psychological turnround, and that even will occur with the General Election,” he said, in an interview broadcast on A.B.C. radio in Australia yesterday. "The mere fact that the government will change will
completely reverse the outflow of New Zealanders we have at this time," Mr Rowling said. “It will reverse that wastage and turn it back into what is in effect a human profit to the country,” he said. Mr Rdwling backed this opinion by pointing out that New Zealand had a net population outflow in 1971 and 1972 before the last Labour government was elected, but said that within weeks of the government under the late Mr Norman Kirk coming to power the outflow had been turned round.
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