Govt claims ‘a hoax’
By
GLEN PERKINSON
The Government has played a “cruel political hoax” on Canterbury in suggesting to it the province could win contracts for naval refits, building and maintenance, said the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr McKinnon, yesterday. Before travelling to Lyttelton to visit one of the tenderers for the H.M.N.Z.S. Southland refit, he told National Party members that "the Government’s hoax had turned sour.”
It had not helped Christchurch “by suggesting there was a real future in
Canterbury for the frigate refits, frigate building and frigate refurbishment anc maintenance.”
“It has already made up its mind tc partially refit the Southland in Auckland in spite of the capability of Lyttelton tc do the job,” he said. Enormous work and investment by Christchurch firms has been wasted because of the Government’s active encouragement. Even the "pleading of local members of Parliament to the Defence Minister, Mr Tizard,” failed to win contracts for Canterbury, he said.
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