Anti-tour protest in Square
A Coalition Against the Tour group gathered in Cathedral Square at lunch time yesterday to oppose the rugby tour to South Africa. About 25 people, some dressed as rugby players, policemen and black South Africans, paraded in the Square before walking to a travel agency in Manchester Street. The demonstration drew little response from onlookers in the Square, or during the short march to picket the travel agency. A spokeswoman for the coalition, Mrs Pat Havighurst, said that travel agencies in Christchurch were directly supporting apartheid by arranging tours to follow the All Blacks in South Africa. “These companies will now become a target for direct peaceful protest,” she said.
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Press, 15 May 1985, Page 8
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