[Posters collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, issued by anti-nuclear movements and groups, against testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific, and visits of nuclear-powered ships to New Zealand. 1980-1986]

Includes:

1980s:

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Nuclear Free Pacific Week. [Blue flyer]. (2 copies)

Pacific Trade Union Forum / Forum des Syndicats du Pacifique. No testing or dumping / Pas d'essails; pas de decharge des dechets nucleaires [1980s]

ANZUS. To whome [sic] it concerns, we work toward the creation of a nuclear-free zone in the Pacific [and] the reduction and elimination of nuclear weaponry everywhere. Art Gallery 33 Willis Street; Art Gallery 29 Arthur Street.

For the integrity of God's creation, we declare this place a nuclear-free zone. Out with the bases now! PCPR, Promotion of Church People's Rights [1980s]

New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee. Search for security. Final solution? Declare New Zealand a nuclear weapon-free zone ... [ca 1981-1985]

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. To the French Government. Notice to quit the Pacific for: Nuclear testing; Denial of independence. Free Tahiti and New Caledonia [1980s] (Poster and A4 blank petition paper).

ca 1982:

New Zealand University Students Association. For a nuclear-free and independent Pacific. Kia toituu te mana o te Moana-nui-aa-Kiwa; raahuitia kia waatea i ngaa Nuukiria whakahaehae whakamootii; Ia matua fa'asaina le fa'aaogaina o aupega malolosi e ai le nuclear bomb i le pasefika atoa. Stop French tests. US out, USSR stay out! [ca 1982].

1982:

USS Truxtun. Protest. Peace Squadron. On-water protest, Dawn, May 25th, for the arrival of the USS Truxtun. If you have a vessel, large or small, and want to oppose the visit of a nuclear armed warship to our harbour, join the Wellington Peace Squadron [1983]

1983:

Mass march against nuclear warships. Assemble Bunny St, Wednesday August 10th, 12.15 pm. At the conclusion of the march there will an anti-nuclear rally at Civic Square. CANWAR (2 copies)

Hex the Tex

New Zealand University Students' Association. Say NO to the Texas. For a nuclear free independent Pacific. March & rally, Wed. 10th, 12.15 Bunny St. NZ out of ANZUS [1983]

1984:

Hiroshima Day; march for peace and independence. The children of Hiroshima were outside when the atom-bomb went off. A call to every patriotic New Zealander. On Saturday August 5th, join the rally at Civic [S]quare [1984]

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. A call to every loyal New Zealander. Join the Hiroshima Day March. Place Civic Square; date Saturday 4 August, Time 11 am. March for peace, against atomic death and foreign interference (2 copies)

1985:

Coalition Against Nuclear Warships. Support the nuclear warships ban. Thank the government. Rally Friday 15 Feb[ruary], Parliament grounds, 12.15 pm - 1.15 pm. [1985] (2 copies)

1986:

From nuclear free Wales - Cymru DDI Niwcliar, to Aotearoa New Zealand. Happy birthday [Card with poems by Gillian Clarke and Menna Elfyn. 1986]

Pacific Peoples Solidarity Conference for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific. University of the South Pacific, Suva 3-9 August 1986 (2 copies)

For good, strong nuclear free legislation. Torchlight march. Assemble Cenotaph, 6 pm Friday August 8th. Hiroshima march to old town hall. Speakers Helen Clark, Lloyd Geering, Jim Knox. No More Hiroshimas [ca 1986] (2 copies)

Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm.

Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011.

Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..