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From: Cook Islands News

Dear Editor The following is the world accord ing to a certain Lloyd Powell.

Lloyd stated ( Cook Islands News on 15/4/96) that “I don’t think there is anything we’ve done that matches any thing of the sorts that went down in New Zealand in the 1980’s”.

Then Lloyd says: “The Cooks do not have two years, not even two months.

Unless Sir Geoffrey Henry announces drastic cuts there will not be enough money to pay the civil service in May.” {The Sydney Morning Herald of 6/4/96).

Go Lloyd, New Zealand cleaned up their mess over a decade ago but the Cooks have only two months before they hit rock bottom. You had better go back to the drawing board and rethink your New Zealand and Cook Islands analogy.

When Lloyd first came to the Cook Islands he said he was determined that politicians keep to the politicking and respect separation from those administer ing their policies. That’s good advice Lloyd, why don’t you follow it someday and quit trying to play both sides against the fence?

Concerned Member Of

The Private Sector

Cook Islands