7400 TREES DEAD

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 2

7400 TREES DEAD

They marched to the offices of the National Party in Lichfield Street, where they were addressed by Mr 3. O’Neill, secretary of the Lyttelton branch of the deregistered Seamen’s Union. The demonstrators carried placards bearing slogans such as “Seamen now, who next?” “If the captain doesn’t like my face I’m finished,” “BUI gives master Captain Bligh power,” and “Seamen have no right under this bill.”

Members of the Progressive Youth Movement, the Socialist Action League, the Tamatoa Council, the Canterbury Trades Council, and a number of young seamen took part in the demonstration. Eight women also marched.

There were no incidents, and, though the demonstrators tended to straggle, traffic disruption was minor.

The protest ended where it began, in Victoria Square. The placards were piled there to be taken away and used again tomorrow at a public meeting in Latimer Square. The speakers tomorrow will be Mr O’Neil! and Mr D. C. Cuthbert, of the Society against Repressive Legislation.

(N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS, Nov. 26. The unusually wet season in Hawke’s Bay has kUled 6050 peach and nectarine trees and 1350 apple trees, according to the senior horticultural inspector with the Department of Agriculture in Hastings (Mr W. R. Miller). This is 2.6 per cent of the peach and nectarine acreage and 3.1 per cent of the apple trees.

Most of the peach trees killed were Golden Queens, and most of the apple trees killed were Granny Smiths and Red Delicious. Many of the apple trees were young.