Poll finds race, law big worries
A new Heylen poll on attitudes shows race relations along with law and order, rather than unemployment or the economy, to be the main concerns of the public. Details of the poll should be released on television’s “Eyewitness” this evening. The poll divided New Zealand into three geographic regions and respondents into three so-cio-economic groups. Confidence in the nation’s future is greatest
in the southern North Island, but support for Government policies is strongest in the South Island. Law and order is regarded as the main problem in the northern North Island and race relations elsewhere. The lowest third socioeconomic group is the one most concerned about unemployment, but much of this concern is centred on people identified as being from the two higher groups “ripping off the system." ______
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