Springbok tour
Sir,—With a mere two months to go before the Spring-
boks are due, something more than another march is needed to express the wide and deep dismay many New Zealanders feel at this seemingly inevitable national disgrace. The pen is said to be mightier than the sword; it may also be more persuasive than the marching shoe or boot. If the Campaign Against the Tour (C.A.T.) really wants to stop it, it should organise and encourage a massive letter blitz directed at the country’s leaders, starting with Mr Muldoon. If the Prime Minister was convinced by such a campaign that the tour was not in his best interests then the tour would not take place. — Yours, etc., JOHN G. FREEMAN. May 16, 1981.
Sir,—Hand in glove, sport and apartheid go together. Does the average kiwi bloke and sheila give a damn as long as they can mindlessly watch a game of rugger — and a triumph of South African policies over New Zealand pretence that this country is not already white racist to an alarming degree? — Yours, etc.,
ROSIE WITTY. May 18, 1981.
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