NO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN ROTORUA

Te Ao Hou, December 1960, Page 17

NO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN ROTORUA There is no racial discrimination in Rotorua district, according to Mr B. Adam, the man in charge of the Maori apprentices' hostel at Rotorua. “I have never been questioned on the fact that a boy I bring along for a job is a Maori,” said Mr Adam. The hostel warden was speaking at the 23rd annual conference of the Women's Health League, held at the Kearoa Meeting House, Horohoro, recently. “Maori youths are accepted equally with Europeans in the Rotorua area,” added Mr Adam. “People often ring me up and ask me for another boy like the Maori youth they have working for them already. I have had to turn down nine offers of apprenticeship recently because I did not have the boys to fill them. I would appeal to all Maori people to keep their children at a high school for at least two years, three if they can manage it. I know that this is often difficult, but I believe that Maori youth should be trained to take a full part in the development of New Zealand—a task that they are so well fitted to carry out,” he said.