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Sir,—Chris Chaston’s letter (February 27), although short, contains inaccuracies. The present Government has not reduced the N.Z. Police Force, as Mr Chaston alleges, but has increased numbers and improved the “policeman’s lot” by a generous early retirement package which was welcomed by the Commissioner of Police and the Police Association. Sure, the Labour Government has made some mistakes in areas such as immigration, but it is being consistent in trying to educate New Zealanders to live in the real hard world of the eighties instead of the blinkered existence shorn up by massive debt that was the legacy of National rule. I well remember a senior cabin steward of Air New Zealand some years ago announcing to passengers of a DC 10 from overseas about to land at Auckland, “Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Mr Muldoon’s Fantasy Island!” How right he was.— Yours, etc.,
R. L. PLUCK. February 27, 1987.
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