H.A.R.T. HOPES FOR ADDRESS

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33664, 14 October 1974, Page 16

H.A.R.T. HOPES FOR ADDRESS

The Halt All Racist Tours movement has written a letter to the Canterbury Rugby Football Union saying that it hopes a spokesman ■will be invited to address the union’s management committee. The letter was written in' response to an invitation from the union for the president of the Southern Africa Friends Association (Lieu-! tenant-Colonel A. C. R. Elderton) to address the management committee at a meeting this week. “If the union is willing to listen to Lieutenant-Colonel Elderton, it should be pre-

s pared to hear the opposing! ! 5 view,” said the letter, which was signed by the area officer for H.A.R.T. (Miss P. F. ’ i McKay). >i The anti-apartheid move-J Lrnent has been trying to hold: -such dialogue with Rugby! [officials for the last five' i! years, it said, and officials] i throughout New Zealand: ’ have refused to discuss the: i;South African sporting con-] ■'tact issue with either parties. • i “Inviting Lieutenant-, - Colonel Elderton to speak i indicates changes in that policy. We hope this change ’ of policy will extend to those: Lof the anti-apartheid move-1 - ment,” it said. 1