Story: Athfield, Ian Charles

Anti-nuclear protest

A photograph showing the look-out tower on the roof of Athfield’s house bearing the slogan ‘keep New Zealand nuclear free’, with an American warship in the harbour in the background

Ian Athfield painted an anti-nuclear protest on the look-out tower of his home, when the American warship USS Truxton visited in 1976. 

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Julia Gatley. 'Athfield, Ian Charles', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6a8/athfield-ian-charles (accessed 29 March 2024)