View of helmets
PA Palmerston north The man in charge of police activities related to the Springbok tour, Chief Inspector Mick Tarling, does not view the phenomenon of wearing helmets which has sprung up during the tour asprovocative. He said he believed that protesters used helmets mainly as protection against bottles and other objects thrown at the demonstrators by rugby supporters. He was satisfied that the
helmets were not worn to help protesters to breach police lines. Chief Inspector Tarling spent two hours, with protest leaders in Palmerston north on Friday to try to ensure that a HART-organisec march in the city on Saturday was held without violence. After the march he said that the degree of control the leaders had exercised over their “troops” had been “remarkable.”
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Press, 3 August 1981, Page 6
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