Games and the tour
“If the Springbok Rugby tour of New Zealand takes place, and I think it should, I believe that the Commonwealth Games will also take place with all the members participating—but I may be wrong,” said the former Mayor of Christchurch (Mr A. R. Guthrey) in Christchurch last evening. In an address to the Christchurch Tin Hat Club,Mr Guthrey said the persons’ who expressed themselves, “so strongly against apartheid” were only expressing the opinion of aIL New Zealanders because they were thinking in terms of New Zealand conditions,, where apartheid, or separate development, was not necessary. “If we had to live in New Zealand with nine to 10 times as many natives as Europeans, and if these natives were not of the high moral, intellectual and educational level of the Maoris, I venture to suggest that we would be looking very closely at separate development as the only sensible way of living freely, safely and happily together. “So why should we be so* self-righteous as to refusehospitality to visitors from South Africa?” he asked.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32895, 19 April 1972, Page 18
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