Race relations
Sir.—By all means let us sever sporting contact, and even all other links, with South Africa. As any thinking person will agree, there is absolutely nothing which can justify or condone that country’s racial policies. But let’s stop blathering about the Gleneagles Agreement, and start doing some honest-to-goodness thinking. When one gets down to the nitty-gritty, there is nothing, absoutely nothing, which can justify or condone the existence of the Maori Land Court, the Department of Maori Affairs or the Maori seats in Parliament. And they should all be “legislated out of existence” immediately. Perhaps then we would have the sort of non-discriminatory society that
we would like South Africa to have.—Yours, etc., HILDA PHILLIPS. ' May 2, 1981.
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