Tour walk

Nearly 500 Victoria students took part in an anti-tour demonstration on 30 April.

The demonstration coincided with the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, held in the Town Hall.

The students marched down to the Town Hall chanting "Stop the Tour" to the beat of a drum.

At the Town Hall they were joined by members of the public and the Federation of Labour who swelled the crowd to over 1000.

At the Town Hall they were addressed by a number of speakers including Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan. M.P, Mr Hunt. M.P., and Trevor Richards. President of Hart.

Mr Hunt said that the issues transcended the simple question of playing rugby and that the argument was really about humanity.

Telegrams of support from several branches of Care and from the Auckland Students' Association were read out by Margaret Bryson.

Also present at the Town Hall were 30 students who supported the tour.

They armed sometime after the main demonstration loudly singing a rugby song "On the Ball".

On the way back to the University the marchers held another protest outside the Dominion offices against the editorial policy of the paper.