HUNGER STRIKE FINISHED
The five-day hunger strike in Cathedral Square by a member of the Progressive Youth Movement in protest against the Vietnam war finished at 6.20 p.m. yesterday at the Worcester Street pie-cart.
Grant Mawson, aged 18, an unemployed former university student, said last evening that the meal was the first solid food he had had since 11 a.m. last Sunday. “I had mashed spuds, two eggs and peas. It tasted very good,” he said. Mr Mawson said he had had only fruit juice since Sunday. “But I smoked three packets of cigarettes. 1 was feeling pretty weak today, but I still think the first day was the worst,” he said. He said that public reaction had been good and he thought the hunger strike had
achieved its purpose in drawing attention to the Vietnam war. A number of pedestrians had approached him and spoken to him while he was sitting in the well-placarded van in which he held his hunger strike, he said. “Just about all of them were encouraging,” he said. In the first day of the strike ■traffic officers issued two trajffic offence notices for park- ' ing infringements by the van; (after that the van was moved (from parking space to parking space as time ran out on meters.
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Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 12
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