Maori rugby tour
Sir, — Two matters are of deep concern, I feel, to supporters and adherents of H.A.R.T.: (1) Over-exposure of its leaders, or leader, to TV and radio; (2) definite traces (for want of a better word) of hypocrisy. Recently it was announced from Wellington that an all-Maori rugby team would tour Australia. No whites, apparently wanted or likely to be. If this is not a virulent form of racism, what is? Yet there was not the slightest murmur of protest from the Halt All Racist Tours Organisation, so frantically eager and loquacious on other aspects of this burning question. A plain breach of the spirit of the Gleneagles Agreement, but completely ignored. Little wonder that the ways of H.A.R.T. are suspect in high places. — Yours, etc., THOS FLEMING. August 25, 1978.
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