National ‘spreading lies’
I PA Hastings i The National Party was j "creeping round spreading I rumours and lies" about ; Labour's superannuation policy, said the Labour Party leader (Mr Rowling) last evening. It was a “pretty lousy deal i to deliberately upset and ' deceive the older people in 1 this country," Mr Rowling told an audience of about 900 at Hastings. ; Mr Rowling said that to ; keep the record straight he 1 wanted to repeat the main I issues in Labour’s manifesto. ; There would be no change in j the basic superannuation rights of New Zealand, and , no means test. Labour would wipe out the clause which stopped superannuation pay-
ments to a person travelling overseas for more than 13 weeks. Mr Rowling drew about 160 more people to his meeting than Social Credit's leader, Mr Beetham, did in the same hall on Tuesday evening.
Mr Rowling chose housing as his main speech topic, pointing out that it was a particularly bad problem in the Hastings area. But he also repeated his constant campaign theme of credibility.
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Press, 12 November 1981, Page 4
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