OPEN-AIR MEETINGS
COMMUNISTS BANNED PERMISSION FOR PACIFISTS [by telegraph —OWN* correspondent] CHTUSTCHUR.CH, Thursday The Communist Party will not hare the privilege of holding open-air meetings in Cliristchurch during the-war period. Also under the same ban is the Anti-Conscription League. The Christian Pacifist League will. 011 the other hand, be allowed to hold its open-air meetings on Friday evenings as usual. The Cliristchurch City Council reached these .decisions after a very long discussion. This was the second full-dress .the subject," for the matter was referred to the by-laws committee for consideration three weeks ago. , The committee's recommendation, that all applications to hold open-air meetings, other than those of religions organisations, should be declined during the war period, was deieated and an amendment, that each application be considered 011 its merits, i* a s I carried. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23470, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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