Victory for peace group at Mt Herbert
Peace campaigners were delighted when the Mount Herbert County Council declared itself a nuclear-weapons-free zone yesterday afternoon.
The move meant that all land surrounding Lyttelton Harbour was now in a nuclear-weapons-free zone, said a spokesman for the Mount Herbert Peace Group, Ms Susan Snelgrove, after the meeting. The Christchurch City Council and the Lyttelton
Borough Council have also declared themselves nuclear-weapons-free. A petition containing the signatures of more than 650 Mount Herbert residents and ratepayers was presented to the council yesterday.
It complied with a council condition that most residents and ratepayers sign it before the council could endorse it. Councillors then without dissent declared the county a nuclear-weapons-
free zone. “We have worked very hard to achieve this,” said Ms Snelgrove. “Mount Herbert is not going to have much effect on its own. However, it is important as part of an over-all movement.”
She said that Canterbury peace groups would now consider whether to ask the Lyttelton Harbour Board to declare the harbour a nuclear-weapons-free zone.
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