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Police and a barbed wire barricade at Invercargill's Rugby Park - Photograph taken by S...
Date: 8 August 1981
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Menzies, Stuart, active 1981-2004
Reference: EP-Ethics-Demonstrations-1981 Springbok Tour-01
Description: Original Evening Post caption reads: "While the Springboks played Southland at Invercargill's Rugby Park on Saturday, a line of police, ordered to watch the crowd and not the game, man a barricade of barbed wire ringing the playing field. The wire was laid on Friday by soldiers against a possible invasion of the ground by demonstrators." Photographed on 8th August 1981 by Stuart Menzies and printed in the Evening Post newspaper on 10th August 1981. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.6 x 21.7 cm