DEMONSTRATION IN DUNEDIN

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31716, 27 June 1968, Page 26

DEMONSTRATION IN DUNEDIN

(New Zealand Press Association)

DUNEDIN, June 26.

A mass demonstration by students and others over New Zealand’s involvement with the United States in the formation of an Omega navigational station in the South Island has been planned in Dunedin.

Application has been made to the Dunedin City Council to hold the demonstration in the Octagon at 8 p.m. on Friday.

The participants in the demonstration will be students, university staff members, and some members of the general public. The demonstration will be the culmination of two days of activity by students and staff members, who are handing out 10,000 copies of a special issue of the Canter-

There were now no worldwide, very low-frequency navigational aids in the South Pacific. He disagreed with a claim by Mr P. A. G. Howell, a senior technician in the physics department at Canterbury University, that New Zealand would become a pri-

bury student newspaper “Canta” to inform the public of the possible effect of the construction of the Omega navigational system in New Zealand. The demonstration will be held in an attempt to raise public interest in the issue. Auckland Students Auckland University students will march in the city on Friday in protest at suggestions to establish the Omega station.