Call for sports director
A call for an impartial director of recreation and sport, rather than a Cabinet Minister, has been made byFree Nation-N.Z., the Auckland breakaway group of the Society for the Protection of Individual Rights.
Free Nation-N.Z. wants all sports bodies to elect a director “who will be able to make decisions on financial matters free from political direction.” The chairman of the group, Mrs Yvonne Willcox, said that taxpayers’, funds should be administered impartially and not as a matter of political expediency. “Free Nation-N.Z. is ap-. palled at the Minister's continuing refusal to acknowledge the tremendous contribution the New Zealand Rugby Union has made to our country, and has asked the Minister to release the $lO,OOO to the Rugby Union for junior coaching," she said.
“A free director of recreation and sport would not be forced to make such undemocratic decisions as that which was made by Mr Highet," Mrs Willcox said.
She said that Free NationN.Z. hoped that Mr Highet would reverse the decision not to pay the money to the Rugby Union so that he did not appear to be setting a thoughtless and narrowminded precedent.
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