STUDENTS VISIT PARLIAMENT
“Striped Marlin” Left On Steps (N Z Press Association!
WELLINGTON, May 7. Victoria University students deposited a 35ft "striped marlin” at the main steps of Parliament House on Friday. It bore a notice: “In a month this fish will be as rotten as the Government.”
The fish, made of painted hessian over a wooden frame, was carried into Parliament grounds by more than a dozen students. They left it between the front steps and Richard John Seddon’s statue and then left immediately.
Close behind the students came a police patrol car. but the students had disappeared by the time the car stopped. A poFee sergeant walked round the fish, shook his head, and drove off as Cabmet Ministers and Parliament House staff watched from their windows. The sergeant later came back and ripoed off the notice. The police sought the help of the Wellington City Corporation staff to remove the “marlin."
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29507, 8 May 1961, Page 14
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154STUDENTS VISIT PARLIAMENT Press, Volume C, Issue 29507, 8 May 1961, Page 14
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