Jobless ‘main issue in rural N.Z.’
PA: Wellington People in the provinces see unemployment as New Zealand’s main issue, says theLabour . leader, Mr, Tange ' ■ ' Mr Lange is continuing his visits to ? provincial centres. He told a postcaucus press conference, yesterday that people in the provinces were not worried about Bretton Woods, the implication of Parliamentary pairs, or voluntary unionism-"'
“Unemployment is the major issue there,” he said.' “They ask not for promises, they don’t ask for magic, they want to be able to see a way to work through the proMem." Mr Lange said people in the provinces had become tired of . the Government’s telling them what it was goingtodo. “If you are in Waitaki and you .have, been promised a cement works for the last three General Elections it starts to wear a bit thin,” said Mr Lange. “They are people who believe that you cannot have'a situation where one dollar .in every three of personal inccsne tax is going to pay interest,” he said.. '■ ; •;
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