Corso challenges P.M. to give 1%

Press, 19 September 1985, Page 44

Corso challenges P.M. to give 1%

PA Wellington Corso is challenging the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, give 1 per cent of his new salary to the charity organisation. Corso has written to Mr Lange and all other recipients of recent pay increases from the Higher Salaries Commission urging them to make the donation for the organisation’s international development work. Launching Corso’s One Per Cent for Justice campaign, the general secretary, Mr Ross Stevens, said that as the Lange Government had intended to send 1 per cent of the gross national product to overseas aid, members of Parliamentmight wish to do so person#

ally. Mr Stevens said Corso had proved a track record, such as the successful Operation Hope campaign, and was wholly New Zea-land-owned and operated. Mr Stevens said that as the Labour Government had returned Corso’s tax deductible status, the organisation had “every chance’’ of success. Mr Lange, at a press conference on Monday, said he already gave more than 1 per cent of his salary — which with expenses is $142,000 — to charities and aid agencies. He then challenged the news media to give 1 per cent of their salaries to similar causes.