N.Z. attitude to S.A. attacked

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33807, 2 April 1975, Page 3

N.Z. attitude to S.A. attacked

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 1. New Zealand was applying double standards to South Africa, said a former Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Duncan Maclntyre, when he opened a conference of moral rearmament at

Wairoa during Easter week-end,

according to a suppl “Official policy discourages sporting contacts, yet at the same time welcomes teams with open arms from other countries where the freedom of the individ- ; ual, even to worship has not been allowed for many years,” he said. “Our leaders who pass the edicts about no sport are the same people who trumpet i with joy that they have dispatched a trade mission to| South Africa.” ; i Mr Maclntyre said that;; closer to home there were < tensions building between 1 Maori, pakeha and Polynesian. “We are warned of ; the time bomb in our midst • — our gravest domestic problem today.” i “Look at some of the in- ; gradients that we find in i this bomb: an education sys- I

•lied report. tern that has failed to chai- 1 lenge the Maori and Islander; to achieve his full potential;; the high proportion of Maoris and Islanders who are in the so-called unskilled jobs and therefore the first to be hit by a recession; a pakeha population that has only now begun to realise the worth of some of the qualities of the Maori and Islander; some dis- | crimination in employment; ; conditions of crowding in i suburban areas; and deepening resentment which can lead to violence,” he said. “Greed and dishonesty stalk the land. The person who is dishonest with his taxes wants something for nothing. He who does not do an honest day’s work puts self before others,” Mr MacIntyre said.