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This image was taken (but not used) for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 01 August 1981. The Standard reported that the protesters stood ‘eyeball to eyeball’ with Police in riot gear for 24 minutes during an unplanned standoff on the intersection of David and Cuba Streets.

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Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2021N_2017-20_034784_002
Title
Protesters challenge police lines
Relation
2017-20
Format
B&W negative
Held In
Other
Archive
Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

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Place
Palmerston North
Date
August 1, 1981

Object rights

Credit Line
Fairfax Media New Zealand

Taxonomy

Tags
1981 springbok tour,
anti-apartheid,
barricades,
cuba street,
police,
protest,
security,
showgrounds,
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