Mr Tauroa ‘entitled to view’

Press, 16 August 1984, Page 8

Mr Tauroa ‘entitled to view’

PA Auckland The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, said today that the Race Relations Conciliator, Mr Hiwi Tauroa, was "entitled to be wise and he is entitled to be foolish” in the views he had expressed ' about the proposed All Black rugby tour to South Africa next year. Mr Lange said Mr Tauroa had a right to differ from the Government In an interview in fimaru

on Wednesday, Mr Tauroa said he wished he could be sure that boycotts were the way to bring people together and achieve change in South Africa. “If. we never meet, how are we going to solve anything?” he asked. Mr Lange said yesterday that Mr Tauroa might like to consider the implications for the 1990 Commonwealth Games if the tour went ahead.

“There will be no legal barriers put in the way of the All Black tour, but the Government will honour the opposition of New Zealand to apartheid. We will honour undertakings to the world and to Gleneagles,” Mr Lange said. Meanwhile, Mr Tauroa said that the welfare of black South Africans was mori?amportant than ensurwas the .venue

for the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He defended his stance on the 1985 tour, saying he was not sure, a boycott of South Africa was advisable. “It is more important to think about 18 million suffering in South Africa than to think about the good things we’ll get from the Commonwealth Games,” he said. Mr Tauroa is a -fprmer Counties rugby coaoffi