Show biz facade

Press, 28 July 1987, Page 1

Show biz facade

PA Auckland “We’re voting for Bolger, and don’t it feel right," sing the Yandall sisters on the National Party’s campaign tour. Actually itfeels a little odd to their father, Mr Jim Yandall, a Labour Party stalwart in the Auckland Central electorate.

He knows, however, that it is only show business. Off stage, in Auckland Central, his daughters, Adele, Mary and Pauline have been doing their share of canvassing for the Government M.P., Mr Richard Prebbie.

As always, says Mr Yandall, the family will be firmly behind the Labour cause on polling day.

The entertainers* role in the National campaign has earned them some good-natured flak from friends who know where the family allegiance lies. . Mr Yandall, voted on a Labour ticket to the Auckland City Council last year, maintains his family is staunchly Labour. He said there is no question of divided loyalties. “They are not letting us down. They are entertainers. It is their livelihood and they were paid to do it

“My daughters have to live. It makes no difference whether the National Party pays for it or someone else.”

The trio consulted their parents before agreeing to rouse audiences for the Opposition in five centres.

They even asked Mr Prebble’s views, “and he was big enough to understand.”