Students challenge Minister
PA Wellington The New Zealand University Students’ Association yesterday invited the Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr Templeton) to live on a student bursary.
The association’s acting president, Miss, Sue Bond, said: “Mr Templeton’s call for students to show restraint is absurd.”
Mr Templeton had criticised an earlier association statement which condemned inflation’s impact on the financial position of students. “The level of the bursary
would have to be increased by 96 per cent if it was to remain at its 1976 value,” Miss Bond said. “Six years of Mr Templeton’s Government have obliterated the financial position of students and yet he still seriously pro-
poses the notion of restraint. “The Minister seems to suggest that low bursaries will help reduce inflation. “We invite him to put his
money where his mouth is. If he is correct then we challenge him to live on a bursary, instead of his Ministerial salary, until such times as inflation disappears.”
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