Sports contact
Sir,—ln 1975, Mr Muldoon boasted that “a National Government would welcome a Springbok. rugby team to N,ew Zealand.” Since the signing of the Gleneagles Agreement, the National Party line has changed to one of stating its opposition. to sporting contacts with South Africa but refusing to take any practical steps in support of its anti-apartheid rhetoric. By now, most National Party M.P.s (except Ben Couch and Norman Jones) have learned to bite their tongues and toe the party line — but not Yaldhurst hopeful Margaret Murray. She told an election meeting last-week that she supported sporting contacts with South Africa. Does not Mrs Murray realise that she is supposed either to toe the line or avoid the question (as Barry Brill did at the same meeting) — or does she intend to line up with Messrs Couch and Jones on this issue?—Yours, etc.,
DAVID SMALL. October 29, 1981.
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