Antarctic Open Day
Sir, —Your report of the Antarctic Open Day ended with a paragraph which I feel needs some elucidation. Perhaps the organisers of the open day, or the police, might oblige by answering the following few questions. Were the two members of the Citizens Vietnam Action Committee citizens of New Zealand? Were the “Navy officials” who kept a “close watch” on the two men until the arrival of the police members of a foreign navy? Were they acting as a vigilance committee to help maintain law and order? Does this navy (foreign or otherwise) own or lease the property on which the two men were carrying out their activities? Why was one man escorted from the display area, and what action, if any, will be taken against him by the police? A citizen of this country, I am becoming increasingly apprehensive as to where we are heading in such matters. — Yours, etc., LAW-ABIDING N.Z. CITIZEN.
October 24, 1972. [Mr A. I. R. Jamieson, general manager of the Christchurch Airport, replies: “The policy of the Christchurch Airport Authority is not to reply to anonymous correspondents. However, we would refer ‘Law-Abiding N.Z. Citizen’ to clause 207 of the Christchurch City By-law No. 46 (aerodrome) 1964.”]
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33058, 27 October 1972, Page 12
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