Hunger striker losing weight
■ i Mr Hogan now ! weighs 50.8 kg. I He described post office closings as a "symptom” of an uncaring attitude of the Government, and said his protest w'as now more of ! an attempt to prompt resistance from the public. Mr Hogan said ’he had been invited by the president of the P.SIA., Mr Colin Hicks, to take part in the associations’ day of national strike on March 14. I
PA Nelson After three weeks of fasting, Mr Patrick Hogan, who is protesting at the closing of the Mapua Post Office, has lost 12.6 kg and is continuing to take nothing but hot water. He said from Wellington yesterday the only things that would take him off his hunger strike would be a change in direction from the Government or some “fight” from the New Zealand public.
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