Teach-ins

"People who attended teach-ins on Vietnam did so with closed minds," Mr. J. R. Harrison (National, Hawkes Bay) said last Tuesday.

Mr. Harrison said they did not go to learn, but to try to attack, or ridicule, Government policy.

He was replying to criticism of his refusal to speak at a teach-in in Hawkes Bay which was abandoned when Government speakers refused to take part.

"The teach-in is designed not to bring out the true facts but to put forward an anti-Government view which I cannot support and which I have spoken against. I do not feel justified in taking part in an anti-Government demonstration," he said. (From an NZPA release.)