Lady Muldoon critical

Press, 12 July 1984, Page 4

Lady Muldoon critical

PA Invercargill Lady Muldoon, wife of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, said last evening that she had attended a recent campaign meeting of the New Zealand Party and reported it to be in a “state of utter chaos.” “I could chair a meeting as well as the chairman, she said. The leader of the New Zealand Party, Mr Bob Jones, jubilantly told reporters yesterday that the Prime Minister’s daughter-in-law, Mrs Phillipa Muldoon, had seen Lady Muldoon and her daughter at a recent meeting for the party’s Birkenhead candidate and party deputy leader, Mrs Janie Pearce.

Sir Robert said last evening that his daughter was on the committee of the

National Party in Birkenhead and his wife and daughter went to a Bob Jones meeting, reporting back to him that they were “in a state of utter chaos.” “They were simply rank amateurs in organising a meeting,” Sir Robert said. Lady Muldoon said, “I thought. I could chair a meeting as well as the chairman, and the chap who spoke on education, is supposed to be their education spokesman, who also boasts of being a school teacher ... didn’t have a clue.” Any suggestion that she or her daughter would vote for the New Zealand Party was a laugh, said Lady Muldoon. Commenting on Ms Pearce, Lady Muldoon said, “She looked very nice, but since then she’s gone way out like an actor.”