Chocolate-buying urged

Press, 31 January 1985, Page 13

Chocolate-buying urged

NZPA-AAP Canberra Van Camp chocolates, the sweets at the centre of the nuclear ships row, are on their way to becoming the fashionable gift in antinuclear circles. The New Zealand Greenpeace activist, Michael Bland, has said he was campaigning for Australians against the nuclear arms race to buy Van Camp chocolates as an act of solidarity with New Zealand.

Van Camp chocolates have been held up at Queensland ports in what the Premier, Sir Joh BjelkePetersen, says is retaliation for the New Zealand ban on nuclear ships. Mr Bland told AAP that buying the chocolates was a way for Australians to show they supported the New Zealand stand against the arms race. He said he had approached Australian groups including People for

Nuclear Disarmament and the Nuclear Disarmament Party giving his suggestion and had received a. warm response. “Van Camp chocolates may have lost a few sales in Queensland but we can make up for that by boosting demand for them in Australia,” he said. “People who agree with nuclear disarmament can make, their protest and get a nice gift for a friend in the process.”