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NZPA Gisborne , New Zealand would have i no difficulty in financing the i big energy projects of the ■ National Party's growth • strategy, said the Prime i Minister (Mr Muldoon) last ! evening. ! Mr Muldoon’s Armistice ■ Day meeting in Gisborne, a i farming and horticultural ! centre, was the rowdiest of ! any meeting he has had ' apart from the occasionally | violent Guy Fawkes night
scenes in Nelson last week. The police had feared there would be trouble before the meeting but although heckling continued throughout the 70-minute meeting in the Gisborne Boys' High School hall, the meeting was largely goodhumoured. Mr Muldoon said that housing also showed that the Government’s growth strategy was already working.
Since National became the Government in 1975 the population of New Zealand had increased by 38,000 and 100,000 new houses had been built. It now took 170 weeks of the average wage to buy an average house (of unspecified price) compared with 275 weeks wages'under Labour. Building permits were increasing.
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