Barricade at Invercargill, 1981 Springbok Tour

Barricade at Invercargill, 1981 Springbok Tour

The 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 8 August 1981 by Stuart Menzies and printed in the Evening Post on 10 August 1981.

Southland lost the game 22-6. See the Tour schedule maps for more information

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