Anti-frigate flag removed quickly
PA Wellington s Workmen on Welling- 1 ton’s Rutherford House moved quickly yesterday ( morning to remove a 10m < by 10m anti-frigate £ banner hung from scaffolding on the fifteenth storey, facing Parliament. 2 The banner, which said, I “70 per cent demand no < frigates,” was placed by 1 two climbers at 7.15 a.m. 1 Another, measuring ' 20m by 3m, was hung < from the top floor of the * Charles Ferguson build- 1 ing, a Defence Ministry office, close to Parlia- 1 ment. s The second banner said, 1 “73 per cent city people 1
say no, 68 per cent country people say no.” The banners were erected by the No Frigates Campaign as a message for the Cabinet. It was thought the Anzac frigate project would go to the Cabinet yesterday, but Defence recommendations have been held up and the issue has yet to go to the Cabinet committee on domestic security and external relations. An anti-frigate spokesman, Fergus Wheeler, said the banners were to remind politicians of public opinion on the issue..
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