Matter Of Money
(New Zealand Press Association!
WELLINGTON, June 9. The Government was asked in Parliament today whether it intended to use the taxpayers’ money to publicise National Party members.
Mr S. A. Whitehead (Opp., Nelson) asked the Minister of Finance (Mr Lake) to give the cost of advertisements on the change-over to decimal currency which had included a photograph of the Under-Secretary for Finance (Mr Muldoon). Mr Lake said the advertisement—one of three being run in conjunction with the distribution of a booklet on decimal currency—was inserted on
the advice of the Decimal Currency Board's advertising consultant. The editorial portion of the advertisement cost £374 and one insertion of the entire advertisement cost £2083. Mr Muldoon was not aware the board had planned to use his photograph. said Mr Lake, but he assured Mr Whitehead of the photograph's value to the advertisement Further advertisements in the series would feature a photograph of the chairman of the board (Mr S. L. Moses) and a map, depicting the countries which had adopted decimal currency.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 3
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173Matter Of Money Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 3
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