OBJECTION TO TOUR
Students Will Hold Forum If New Zealand went ahead with the All Black tour of South Africa, Rhodesia and South-West Africa it could not claim to be a country which upheld the principle of equality before the law regardless of race, colour or creed, the chairman of the Canterbury University Students’ Association committee on racial discrimination (Mr F. Baird) said in Christchurch on Tuesday. “Our small nation has become the focal point in a controversy which is involving more of the world’s people than any other single political issue," Mr Baird said.
Unless an urgent stand was taken New Zealand would be in the position of being one of the few countries in the world supporting racist sport, said Mr Baird.
The Canterbury University Students’ Association will hold a public forum in Latimer Square on Friday afternoon and a public meeting in the evening to discuss the proposed tour. I
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32308, 28 May 1970, Page 10
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