The Very Reverend J. G. Laughton, at the unveiling ceremony of the memorial to the late Sir Apirana Ngata, at Tikitiki in 1952, reads from one of the first copies of the new Maori Bible translation. (National Publicity Studios Photograph). RACE RELATIONSHIPS By The Rev. Dan Kaa Ko te mahi nui ma tatau inaianei ko te whakaae ki te rongo pai hei kaupapa mo te noho a tena tangata, a tena ropu; kahore hoki i hoki iho te nui, te whakaharahara o te ata whakatikatika i nga kereeme a te maori, a te pakeha—a te iwi hoki. Ko te whakaakoranga o te tauriteritetanga o te tangata, me te mea nei kua whakaae haeretia. Otira ki te ata tirohia kahore he whakaakoranga marama atu, marakerake atu, te he. Kahore tetahi tangata i rite tonu ki tetahi, no te mea i roto i te taupipiritanga me te rereketanga o te noho a te tangata, tena noa atu te rahi o te takiwa hei wehewehe, hei whakarereke i tetahi tangata i tetahi tangata! No reira ko te tauriteritetanga kaore i roto i te ahua o te noho a te tangata kei reira nei nga tini rereketanga o te tinana, o te hinengaro, o te tika, o te he; engari kei roto i te whakaaro pai, aroha; kei roto i te waimarie e taea ai te whakaputa nga mea ataahau kei roto e takoto ana; ko te whakaaro o ia tangata ki te mahi te hoa mahanga o tenei tauriteritetanga o te tangata. Kei tetahi iwi, kei tetahi iwi tonu te tikanga e pai ake ai te noho a te tangata i tenei whenua. E tika ana kia iriiria nga iwi e rua ki roto ki te noho hou kia tu ai he iwi hou: kahore ko etahi anake i konei i ko, engari ko te katoa tuturu o nga iwi e rua i roto i o raua rereketanga (e whaiti nei ki roto ki te maoritanga, The doctrine of human equality is tending to become more and more recognised. Literally, of course, no doctrine is more obviously and glaringly false. No two human beings are equal, for in the complexity of human conditions how wide is the scope for individual differences and variety! The equality is therefore not that of condition in which there are numberless inequalities, physical, mental and moral, but of consideration and regard, and of opportunity for developing innate capacity and latent worth: and personal responsibility is the correlative of this individual equality. Each race has its part to play in the social betterment of this country. The two races should be baptised into the new life to form one nation: not merely individuals here and there, but the whole life of the two peoples in all their variety (summed up in Maoritanga and pakehatanga), with all their manifold potentialities. If mankind is created in the image of God, his nature is corporate; there is in humanity a “togetherness”, a more than obvious physical interdependence, a spiritual bond which cannot be eliminated because it is a fact about human nature. This essential social nature within humanity cannot be denied. It has to be given outward expression in social form and social activity consistent with man's