A day for thinking
’ A display will be held in .Cathedra! Square today to mark National Interest Day, whicl} is intended to make people think about what the term “national interest” means. ■ The display will include material from such Christchurch groups as torso, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Development, the Values Party, Campaign Against Foreign Control in New Zealand, Native Forests, Action-, Council, Campaign - Powdr -Poll, and the Environment Centre.
“Mr Birch bandies the term about, but the recent Commission for the Environment report indicates that not everyone thinks- along the same lines," Said the Christchurch co-ordinator for National Interest Day, Mr G. Cook, yesterday. The day was intended to make' people realise that they could determine what was in New Zealand’s national interest, Mt Cook said. Similar activities rWill be held in other main-centres of New Zealand,
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