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When the Tour Came to Auckland
When the Tour Came to Auckland
by Geoff Chapple
Announcing the release of this new BWB Text, which is now available from e-bookstores and the BWB website.
About the
Book
‘At 2.40pm Patu charged. A human tank.
The first time during the tour that a protest squad charged
police lines with the intention of breaking through
…’
The Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 provoked the biggest mass protests in New Zealand history. For two months tens of thousands of New Zealanders took to the streets every week to register their opposition to the tour.
In When the Tour Came to Auckland, Geoff Chapple, author of 1981: The Tour, describes the dramatic events in Auckland as a light aircraft flour-bombed Eden Park and protesters battled police in the streets of Mt Eden in the tour’s violent conclusion.
This BWB Text includes a new, especially prepared introduction by Geoff Chapple.
About the
Author
Geoff Chapple is a journalist, author and musician.
He was arrested twice during the Springbok tour, and
convicted of disorderly behaviour. He became known
subsequently as the founder of the Te Araroa
trail.
About BWB Texts
New BWB Texts
are released monthly, with upcoming releases including works
by Anne Salmond, Tipene O’Regan, Paul Dalziel & Caroline Saunders, andShamubeel Eaqub.
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