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The anti-Tour protest contingent starts to collect itself together in preparation for leaving the vicinity of Mount Eden and Eden Park
John MercerSeptember 12, 1981
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Auckland, New Zealand
Black and white photograph of a crowd of anti-Springbok tour protesters assembling on Dominion Road. The protesters are part of a Maori led sub-group called Patu squad. One protester is holding a placard reading "stop the tour".
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- Title: The anti-Tour protest contingent starts to collect itself together in preparation for leaving the vicinity of Mount Eden and Eden Park
- Creator: John Mercer
- Creator Lifespan: b. 1949
- Creator Nationality: New Zealander
- Creator Birth Place: New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Date Created: September 12, 1981
- Location: Mount Eden (Auckland, N.Z.)
- Physical Dimensions: 35 mm frame
- Subject Keywords: Anti-apartheid movements--New Zealand, Rugby football--Political aspects--New Zealand, Racism in sports, Protest movements--New Zealand, Protest movements--New Zealand--Auckland
- Type: Negative
- Rights: All rights reserved
- External Link: Auckland Museum: Collections Online
- Support: Polyester
- Wikipedia: Auckland Museum on Wikipedia
- Process: Gelatin silver
- Notes: Inscribed on print verso: BC9-78 Dominion Rd looking toward the city. Patu group reluctant to stop. 12th Sept 1981. The protest contingent starts to collect itself together in preparation for leaving the vicinity of Mount Eden and Eden Park. I assume from a police point of view that it would be preferable that the rugby fans exiting Eden Park at the end of the game were not confronted by any protesters. Particularly as the rugby fans have seen the aerial police (and media) chase above the stadium, the interruption to play resulting from the felling of Gary Knight by a flour bomb dropped from the protest plane and the All Black win.
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