Protests at M.P.’s home
<N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 20. Mr T. F. Gill (Lab., Waitemata) was visited today by about 200 demonstrating students. The demonstrators, Auckland University students and pupils representing 19 Auckland high schools, showed their disapproval of Mr Gill’s anti-drug bill by holding a sit-in and “pot party” outside his home in Mairangi Bay. They gathered at Albert Park and listened to student leaders before going to Mairangi Bay. Once there, they marched to Mr Gill’s home, beating pots, frying pans and plastic bottles with sticks, blowing whistles and bugles, and ringing hand-bells. The “tin pan” band squatted on the road and continued the banging while chanting: “Kill Gill’s Bill.” When Mr Gill offered to meet a deputation, the leaders refused and the group dispersed after three hours of demonstrating.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32639, 22 June 1971, Page 19
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