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IRD Close Twelve More Branches-Peters.
Friday, 15 October 1999, 9:26 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, is shocked to learn tonight that the Inland Revenue Department has concealed plans to close 12 of its branches from a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry. More >>
Immigration Minister does not know Immigration Law
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 6:35 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, wants to know why no Government action was taken on illegal immigration scams being perpetrated on Tongan nationals in South Auckland. More >>
Alliance Has Lost Its Credibility With The Elderly
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 5:43 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, has told the Alliance to stop being apologists for the lack of action over a sound superannuation plan by its Accord partners, National and Labour. More >>
Crime Move Too Little – Too Late!
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 1:08 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes that National should have been tough on gangs and drug dealers for the past nine years instead of leaving it a few weeks before an election campaign. More >>
Excessive Bank Profits At Expense Of Rural NZ
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 1:06 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Rural Spokesperson, Ian Walker, believes banks have improved their profitability at the expense of many small business clients in rural areas. More >>
Peters Speech On Superannuation
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 11:25 am | New Zealand First Party
Citizens who have made their contribution, and are entitled to live in some degree of financial security, now live in a state of insecurity, because they cannot trust the State to treat them fairly in their declining years. More >>
IRD to close Greymouth Office - Promises, Promises
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 12:20 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Leader, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, is today expressing concern that the Inland Revenue Department has decided to close its sole West-Coast customer service branch in Greymouth, and is advising ‘customers’ to drive to Blenheim instead. More >>
Crime Move Too Little - Too Late!
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 8:09 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First believes that National should have been tough on gangs and drug dealers for the past nine years instead of leaving it a few weeks before an election campaign. More >>
Peters Speech: What is the future of Marsden Point
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 4:00 pm | New Zealand First Party
Since 1994 New Zealanders will have observed that some big businesses in New Zealand can do whatever they like at enormous cost to consumers and other businesses. Labour and National will do nothing to stop them. More >>
New Zealand First Release Minority IRD Report.
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 1:24 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has released a minority report criticizing the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee Inquiry into the powers and operations of the IRD, which releases its report today. More >>
Court Case Should Not Have Happened
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 9:09 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown, MP, has congratulated firefighters on winning their appeal court cases, but says they should not have had to take their case to court in the first place. More >>
Labour Leaves Most Early Teachers Out In Cold
Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 1:49 pm | New Zealand First Party
“Labour’s plans to bring only kindergarten teachers under the state sector is elitist, and an insult to the majority of early childhood teachers,” New Zealand First Education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly, said today. More >>
New Military Allowances Still Not Enough
Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 12:36 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First Defence spokesperson Ron Mark has welcomed the increase in allowances for soldiers fighting in East Timor, but says the new rates are still not enough. More >>
Pre-Election Promises Not Matched By Record
Monday, 11 October 1999, 1:51 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has described Labour’s rural health policy as a cynical attempt to woo provincial New Zealand. More >>
New Zealand First Promises Funding For Hospital
Monday, 11 October 1999, 12:29 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has repeated its promise of capital funding of $2 million dollars and secondary hospital status for Thames hospital in the wake of Health Minister Wyatt Creech’s meeting on Friday. More >>
Hauraki Marine Park Bill only sleeping
Monday, 11 October 1999, 12:19 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First MP Robyn McDonald is still firm in her resolve to defeat the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill in its present form. More >>
Winston Speech “ Campaign On Coalition Priorities"
Sunday, 10 October 1999, 4:58 pm | New Zealand First Party
An address by Rt Hon Winston Peters at a public meeting at the ASB Netball North Harbour Complex, 44 Northcote Road, Northcote at 2pm Sunday, 10th October 1999. More >>
Alliance Told To Fight Fair During Campaign
Friday, 8 October 1999, 11:13 am | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has urged the Alliance to concentrate on the real issues facing New Zealanders during this election campaign, and not to engage in personality politics. More >>
Cracking Down On Public Spitting
Friday, 8 October 1999, 12:35 am | New Zealand First Party
Northland MP, Brian Donnelly, is calling for a crackdown on public spitting in order to reduce the horror health statistics of Northland. More >>
Give them jobs not drugs!
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 4:27 pm | New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First is outraged at Helen Clark's announcement yesterday at a Victoria University student forum, that the Labour Party would condone the use of cannabis. More >>
