Anyone strolling beside the Avon River in central Christchurch yesterday might have seen more than the usual ducks floating by.
A raft-load of teacher trainees (pictured), voyaged downstream from the Bridge of Remembrance to the Edmonds band rotunda to protest against cuts in education spending.
Part of their action was also directed at the Government’s failure to extend cost-of-living increases to them.
The expedition began at 11.30 a.m. and took about an hour, being supplemented by up to 70 supporters on the riverbank.
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