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Rat Sighted Swimming Towards Sinking Ship

Published: Thu 8 Apr 2004 11:24 AM
Rat Sighted Swimming Towards Sinking Ship
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today advised New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters to reflect on the words of his namesake, before committing to keeping the Labour Government's seabed and foreshore legislation afloat.
"In the 1920s, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill observed that there had been few instances in history `of a rat swimming towards a sinking ship'," Mr Eckhoff said.

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