RULING ON MARCHES
“Restatement
Of Policy”
In its decisions last week on conditions for street marches, the City Council had merely re-stated policy that bad, in the main, stood for many years, said the Deputy Mayor (Mr H. P. Smith) yesterday.
He was replying to criticism of the decisions by the Methodist Synod, the Canterbury Council of Civil Liberties and other organisations.
Referring to the ban on assembly on Victoria Square. Mr Smith said that the council’s reserves department had always opposed this, because of the damage that could be done to grass and flower-beds. There was no objection to pamphlets being distributed on request, but to distribute them wholesale led to litter which had to be picked up at the ratepayers’ expense. Mr Smith said that the decision requiring approval of placards had been reached chiefly as a convenience to march organisers. While the content of placards was primarily a police matter, it was unlikely that the police would object if the nature of the placards was stated by those applying for permits.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31768, 27 August 1968, Page 7
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