No N-free zone on Auck. harbours
PA Auckland The Auckland Harbour Board has rejected a request by anti-nuclear petitioners to proclaim its harbours nuclear-free.
It has, however, adopted a recommendation urging the Government to seek an agreement from the nuclear powers to disarm for world peace. The board discussed a petition organised by “Schools Against the Bomb.” The petition had more than 6000 names of Auckland secondary school pupils and called for the Waitemata
and Manukau harbours to be declared nuclear-free. Declaring the harbours nuclear-free would be an empty gesture, said the board’s general manager, Mr R. T. Lorimer. The Auckland Peace Forum had also asked the board to declare its opposition to visits by nuclear warships to the port and to proclaim a nuclear-free zone. A petition with more than 10,000 names gathered by the forum was to have been presented, but the board refused to receive it.
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Press, 25 August 1983, Page 15
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