Racial fears cited
By
PETER O’HARA
NZPA London Anti-Maori feeling is growing in New Zealand and is the reason many people are leaving the country, Britain’s "Independent” newspaper reported yesterday. Many New Zealanders decided to assume the worst about the unlikely prospect of a racial explosion, the newspaper said in a report from Wellington headlined “Nervous whites flee the Maori menace.” The “Independent,” London’s youngest quality newspaper and one which has established a powerful reputation for objectivity, informed its readers that compared with “the sullen
stalemate in American cities, or the uneasy divisions in Britian, race relations in New Zealand are not bad." j But it noted that last year there was “aj huge increase in emigration and many of those leaving cited fears of rising [Maori crime rates, and [Maori land rights agitation,' as their reasons for departure.”
Anti-Maori feeling had “grown in exact proportion to the revival of Maoris’ confidence in their institutions, culture and language.” I
“Behind the new selfassurance of the Maoris some whites see the most sinister implications,” the newspaper said.
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