Demo Soon

An anti-Tour demonstration is to be held outside the NZ Rugby Football Union's Annual Conference on Thursday. 30 April.

Hart Chairman Trevor Richards says he expects that the demonstration—to commence about 1 pm—should consist of at least 1000 people.

Anti-Tour demonstrations will also be held simultaneously in Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Dunedin and possibly other centres.

Mr Richards says the obvious target for demonstrations against the Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia is the Rugby Football Union. The trials will also provide an opportunity for the expression of dissent, he says.

"The purpose of the demonstrations," says Mr Richards, "is two-fold: to stop the Tour and, more immediately, to impress upon the Rugby Football Union that they must publicly discuss the question of a tour to South Africa and Rhodesia. This they have so far refused to do."