PACIFIST GOES OUT FOR A "DUCK"
Recent open-air addresses in Motueka by a group of pacifists have been anything but well received by thq people of the borough, says a Nelson correspondent. On a recent night a speaker had just started, when, in reply to one of many questions, he stated that in the event of an enemy invasion of New Zealand he would do, nothing to resist it. That answer appeared to be the signal for direct action by a secbion of the audience. An order, "Release safety catches, target in frcnt, fire," was followed by a hail of ancient duck eggs. The luck- ' less speaker was enveloped in an odour which had the effect of dispersing even those few supporters who .might otherwise have remained when the ibombardment group departed: Returned servicemen in the borough have resented the action of pacifists in giving their addresses in the vicinity of the war memorial.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5283, 20 December 1946, Page 7
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154PACIFIST GOES OUT FOR A "DUCK" Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5283, 20 December 1946, Page 7
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