Springbok tour
Sir,—ln support of D. G. Sanders (February 7) one could go further and ask: “How much more in M. Creel's letters is incorrect?" To say, as he did, that the New Zealand Government “imposed” the Springbok tour on us is obviously incorrect. The tour took piace because of our quite different idea of freedom compared with the ideas of some other people. The fact is that the 1 Government cancelled the payment of grants to rugby as a penalty but those of us who disagree with that may exercise our democratic freedom at election time in what is the most free country in the world even if communist propaganda writers say otherwise.—Yours, etc., ROBERT HOLMES, Picton. February 8, 1983.
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