TOP: Mr Izumi Tamura addresses Burnside High School pupils at their commemoration of Hiroshima Day yesterday. The school observed a one-minute silence just before lunch and then members of the school’s peace group, S.A.N.D. (Students Against Nuclear Destruction), gathered to hear Mr Tamura, who is accompanying a group of Japanese high school students who are guests of the school. BOTTOM: The group links hands to form a human peace symbol. In other places throughout Christchurch people remembered the victims of the first atom bomb. New Brighton school children released pigeons and balloons carrying paper cranes out to sea, while flowers and shells were placed round a large peace sign in the sand. Shoppers in New Brighton and in Cathedral Square stood for one minute’s silence.
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125TOP: Mr Izumi Tamura addresses Burnside High School pupils at their commemoration of Hiroshima Day yesterday. The school observed a one-minute silence just before lunch and then members of the school’s peace group, S.A.N.D. (Students Against Nuclear Destruction), gathered to hear Mr Tamura, who is accompanying a group of Japanese high school students who are guests of the school. BOTTOM: The group links hands to form a human peace symbol. In other places throughout Christchurch people remembered the victims of the first atom bomb. New Brighton school children released pigeons and balloons carrying paper cranes out to sea, while flowers and shells were placed round a large peace sign in the sand. Shoppers in New Brighton and in Cathedral Square stood for one minute’s silence. Press, 7 August 1985, Page 8
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