Anti-Springbok Tour protesters challenge police lines
Object type
Image
- Description
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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
- Relation
- 2017-20
- Date
- August 1, 1981
- Digitisation id
- 2021N_2017-20_034784_001
- Format
- B&W negative
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- Other
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Creation
- Created By
- Manawatū Evening Standard
- Place
- Palmerston North
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