Opportunities
Sir, — The visiting Professor Howard, expert on race and sex discrimination, finds that white New Zealanders are convinced that equal opportunities are available to the Maori. I am a white New Zealander who is not convinced. In the North Island I have a nephew searching in vain for an apprenticeship to the motor trade. On hearing that the local college was offering a motor mechanics course, he sought further information with a view to enrolling. He was both disappointed and angry to find that this is available only to young persons with Maori blood. If this scheme, which one acknowledges as both practical and encouraging to our young job seekers, is subsidised and organised by the Department of Maori Affairs, why can we not have a Department of Pakeha Affairs to provide these equal opportunities? — Yours, etc., J. M. MOLLOY. April 29, 1981.
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Press, 1 May 1981, Page 12
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