Inquiry sought into closings
PA . Wellington The Opposition spokesman on New Zealand Post, Mr Roger Maxwell, will seek a Parliamentary committee inquiry into the reasons and need for post office closings. ; ■ • , All reasons for closing the 432 post offices and agencies raised questions, Mr Maxwell said yesterday. Labour backbenchers .who supported the closings seemed to be “woefully deficient. In control-' . llngthelrexecutive,” and therefore other Parliamentary ntechanisms had to be used. Government monopolies needed to be as efficient as possible, but “the scale of current changes is very open to challenge and the motives require some Investigation.” The base on which the subsidy for each post office was worked out needed to be ‘examined in detail. *
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