Fisheries bill still open
Political reporter The content of the Maori Fisheries Bill is not final, the Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Wetere, has assured the bill’s critics. Anyone wishing to express their views on the bill would have ample opportunity to do so when the special Parliamentary Select Committee set up to consider it gathered public submissions. He rejected a call from the Maori Council for Labour’s four Maori members of Parliament to resign over the bill.
Their obligations were to the people in their electorates and not to the Maori Council, Mr Wetere said. Anyone, including members of the Maori Council, was entitled to express their views on the bill but opinions should be chanelled in a proper and constructive manner to the select committee. The Crown and Maori negotiators had worked tirelessly to get the thing to this stage, but now the point had been reached; where progress had to be made, he said.
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