PACIFIST SPEAKER.
DEFIED WIND AND RAIN. During the lunch hour on the waterfront to-day a Pacifist Htoppcd in front of a hostelry and opened an apparently impromptu address to the world on the text of the futility of war. Among those who stopped to listen were a couple of polictuncu, who moved the speaker along on the plea fiat he was obstructing the traffic. He drifted with the easterly wind to the front of the Ferry Buildings, where he took a stand off the footpath, ai:d re-com-menced his speech. Along the edge of the footpath a knot of thirty or forty people listened eilently, while the orator talked continuously, bare-headed in the wind and rain, for the best part of an hour. Two policemen stood by, but had no cause for action beyond keeping the footpath clear for traffic.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 8
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139PACIFIST SPEAKER. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 8
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