Party ‘shambles’ brings resignation
PA Auckland A New Zealand Party council member has resigned, claiming credibility has been destroyed by what he terms the shambles this week.
Mr lan MacPherson, of Takapau, in southern Hawke’s Bay, has been deputy chairman of the party’s Wellington division. He said events after the announcement by the leader, Mr Jones, and the president, Mr Malcolm McDonald, of an 18-month recess meant the party had no credibility left. “I will not be a party to that shambles and the thumping of television newsmen,” he said. The incidents at Turangi
on Tuesday when Mr Jones punched four journalists were “reprehensible and had no justification whatever,” he said? At a council meeting on June 28, Mr MacPherson moved that the party disband but the resolution was heavily defeated. He said yesterday that he had moved the motion to “test the water” and to promote discussion. It had been clear most of the 12 councillors felt the party rank and file should be consulted on the organisation’s future.
Also at that meeting he had tendered his resignation, but had been persuaded not to quit. Earlier report, page 3.
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