Colour Bar
Sir, —If Mr Alex Bradford was correctly reported, his remarks about a colour bar in New Zealand cannot aid racial understanding. If there was a colour bar at the Hotel De Brett in Auckland, he and his Maori friends would not have been able to eat there and provoke other guests by “sitting in” for two hours. This incident and his vague report of “stand-offish pakehas” are illustrations merely of racial prejudice, to which any individual is entitled. There are examples of a colour bar in some North Island towns, where Maoris are discouraged in restaurants and hotels, and there is much discrimination in employment and housing throughout the country. Most New Zea- ■ landers despise those who escalate personal feelings to outright confrontation in racial issues and need no prompting from a visitor who is not prepared to fight the real colour bar in another country.—Yours etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. November 1. 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30587, 2 November 1964, Page 12
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