Evening Post Article Erroneous In Every
Respect Reporter Knew It Before The Article Went To
Print.
“The Evening Post article of 21 June, headlined ‘NZ
First struggles to contest Maori seats’ is erroneous in
every respect, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
said.
“The Party’s Board of Directors is meeting on
candidate nominations and other matters next Monday.
Meetings with Maoridom around the country have been
organised for next week. When the Board has met and the
meetings have been completed a press statement will be
issued.”
Mr. Peters said that if he couldn’t find twenty
Maori candidates better than the current crop in Parliament
then “New Zealand First would not have taken the Maori seats
off Labour in the first place.”
He said that he hoped
that, in this campaign, he would not have to deal with
“mindless speculation that is not worth the paper it is
printed on.”
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