Hiroshima Dav ceremonies

Press, 4 August 1977, Page 19

Hiroshima Dav ceremonies

Hiroshima Day will be commemorated in Christchurch tomorrow with a lantern ceremony on the banks of the Avon River, an anti-nuclear march, and a seminar on Trident nuclear submarines. Hiroshima Day activities, commemorating lives lost after the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan in 1945, are organised annually by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. (The bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a citv of about 245,000, at 8.15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, killing about 100,000 people and injuring 100,000 more.)

Two hundred candles will be lit on the Avon riverbank opposite the Canterbury Public Libarary at 6.15 p.m. An anti-nuclear march will leave Victoria Square at 7.15 p.m.

There will be a seminar on Trident nuclear submarines at the Society of Friends meeting house in Manchester Street on Saturday, at 10 a.m., which will incorporate slides by Mr R. Aldridge, who was at one time involved in the design of the submarines.