
Anti-Springbok Tour protesters challenge police lines
- Description
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 03 August 1981, with the caption: "On the verge of the unknown…the thin blue line faces the protesters.” The Standard reported that protesters against the Springbok Rugby Tour game held against Manawatū on 1 August, stood ‘eyeball to eyeball’ with Police in riot gear for 24 minutes during an unplanned standoff on the intersection of David and Cuba Streets.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- August 1, 1981
- Digitisation ID
- 2021N_2017-20_034784_001
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held In
- Other
Taxonomy
- Community Tags