MEETING ON VIETNAM
Negotiated Peace Urged
About 200 persons gathered last evening to hear five speakers at a meeting organised by the Christchurch Joint Council on Vietnam on the bank of the Avon at the Hereford street bridge. The speakers urged a negotiated peace in South Vietnam.
The meeting was orderly and quiet—very quiet at first, when the loud-speaker system would not work.
Two men and five youths bearing placards “Are You a Red Kiwi?” “Or a Yellow Kiwi?” and “Get the Viet Cong Out of Christchurch”) arrived well after the meeting had started. They made a small number of interjections and occasional hoots of derisive laughter. One of the placard-bearers distributed a leaflet headed “Why We Are in Vietnam.” Two plain-clothes policemen present had no occasion to do anything but listen. At the end of the meeting some young men in a car threw crackers on to the street
The speakers were the Rev. M. A. McDowell, the Rev. D. J. Inglis, Mrs Mary Woodward, Mr D. M. Kane, and Dr. J. Flynn.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 1
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