Maori trainees
Sir, — In “The Press” today Mr Couch has added to his reactionary statements about birching and Springbok tour support, two statements which fill me with foreboding. The first, the possibility of recruiting neoole to birch violent offenders, smacks of a New Zealand S.S. and is appalling. The second is more insidious. It is that when exact numbers of unemployed Maori youth, estimated to be between 12,000 arid 15,000 without school lea-, vers, is known; only., then
would an approach, be piade for increased training programmes. Why was the Rehua Marae’s sound training scheme suddenly stopped ,on Christmas Eve? If there is sincerity in Mr Couch’s concern about violence (accentuated by unemployment) or about Maoris (losers in employment) or'of the country’s technical needs (will 1 we import trained white 1 . Rhodesiahs?)- to remove Maoris already allocated for technical- training from ■ a. Christchurch rnarae is inexplicable. Is this further birching;; for Christchurch? —Yours, etc.,
. ”1. B. ROBERTS January* 7, 1981'. - 1 ■ ’
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