Plunket Society Campaigns Against Tests
W.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 8. The Plunket Society has cabled the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand (the Most Rev. P. T. B. McKeefry) who is in Rome, to ask him to try to secure Papal intervention in the proposed French nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. The cable said the society wished to alert the consciences of the French nation, particularly the women, to the
terrible consequences to unborn children in the South Pacific, South-east Asian and South American countries which would undoubtedly result if the tests were carried out.
Mrs I. C. Horton, vicepresident of the society, said today the cable was sent after consultation with Roman Catholic leaders in New Zealand. Mrs Horton said she hoped to raise a fighting fund of £3OOO with which to begin a campaign directed at the French people.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30593, 9 November 1964, Page 1
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