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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33, No. 5 22 April 1970

Tour Protest

Tour Protest

Victoria University students recently held a protest demonstration against the All Black Tour of South Africa.

President Margaret Bryson led about fifty students through town to the headquarters of the National Executive of the Rugby Football Union. The Executive was meeting for the last time before the tour.

Margaret Bryson, Trevor Richards and Bill Logan presented statements against the tour to Mr Sullivan. President of the NZRFU. These were made by Paul Grocott, NZUSA; Tom Potai, Maori Organization on Human Rights; Bill Logan. PYM; W.J. Knox, Fol; Mrs Tirakatene-Sullivan, M.P. Southern Maori; Margaret Bryson, VUWSA and Trevor Richards, Hart.

The students waited in the cold for half an hour and disbanded just after 5.00 p.m.

A rock concert planned to attract students before the march did not take place. Instead people were asked to air their views on the tour.

When nobody spoke, Miss Bryson accused the people in the main common room of apathy. "If you don't agree with the demonstration then stuff you," she said.