Publicity Planning

The final group to report was the Publicity planning group whose main recommendation was to appoint a full time paid co-ordinator of activity with an emphasis on publicity work. Before the Conference concluded with discussion about the proposed national co-ordinating committee, a resolution moved by Pat Kelly resolving to affect a boycott of all Caltex products as long as they employ the chairman of the Rugby Union, Jack Sullivan, as their General Manager, was carried.

The action from this conference has still to coma, and will only come from harder work and better organisation on the part of Anti-Apartheid groups in New Zealand. The important thing about this conference is that it provided an impetus for action for a lot of people who have opposed apartheid in varying degrees before. There is one important point which should not be forgotten by ell those who profess an abhorrence of apartheid and colonialism in Southern Africa. That is, that racialism, even if it is not so apparent, exists in New Zealand too, and, as Hannah Jackson told the Conference, white liberals should give more support to Maori groups, such as Nga Tamatoa, which are fighting racialism here.

Bob Burgess - 'wont play'