RACE RELATIONS IN N.Z.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 8

RACE RELATIONS IN N.Z.

BREACH SAID TO BE OPENED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 5. “There are signs that in places a breach is opening between the two races and urgent attention to the problem is necessary if this development >? c * le S? d ” the report of the Maori Missions Committee received by the Presbyterian General Assembly today. The report says that for many years the European part of the community prided Itself in Its relations "with its Maori brethren and received worldwide commendation for its attitude. The Christian Church had a great responsibility in regard to race relations, said the. committee convener, the Very Rev. L. M. Rogers, who presented the report, and its ministers and people should express in deed as well as speech, the oneness of Maori and pakeha. "The Maori people ar? growing not only in numbers but in sense of pride in their culture and history and we have to face the fact that there will be two races living side by side in this country,” he said. “There is no valid reason why they should not live together with an amity of mutual respect and sympathetic

understanding and with a co-operatioj which will give us political, social, ana economic equality.’’ The assembly resolved to place ™ record its conviction of the uHJI under Christ of pakeha and Maori aw urge members of both races within “J. Church to work together in sympatw and understanding. ■- “