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Grey Power members protest the government's efforts to 'back tax' them last year. 13110136
Dear Editor, The CIP caretaker Government’s $49 million ‘holding’ budget article in Saturday’s newspaper rated next year’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, concerts by Cook Islands artists, sports events and work by non-Government organisations as some of the worthy beneficiaries in their generous money hand-out exercise carried out by a Government in limbo.
Dear Editor, The CIP caretaker Government’s $49 million ‘holding’ budget article in Saturday’s newspaper rated next year’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, concerts by Cook Islands artists, sports events and work by non-Government organisations as some of the worthy beneficiaries in their generous money hand-out exercise carried out by a Government in limbo.
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