Rugby tour
Sir,—l have no doubt that Brian Lochore is, as Ted Mulcock describes him, a plain rugby man with simple values who would be a good bloke to have a beer with. Unfortunately, he and the Rugby Union Council would be as much at home with the South African Government as Chamberlain was with Hitler.
The privilege of playing rugby with the Springboks is just one more thing we cannot afford in this nuclear age. The rugby union councillors are clones of those who oppose the New Zealand Government’s share towards solving the nuclear problem. Younger people, like the players themselves, should consider the damage done to the high moral regard in which New Zealand is held by the Governments of this world before going on this trip. The older men who are sending them have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.—Yours, etc., VERNON WILKINSON. May 27, 1985.
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