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NEW ZEALAND RACE RELATIONS

… How Much is just ‘Good Luck’? by Christopher Lethbridge, B.A., L.Th. It is very easy for New Zealanders to get a little smug on the subject of their race relationships; especially the Pakeha! Every now and again some visitor from overseas gets reported in our newspapers making favourable comments. For instance, Billy Graham, on his recent tour, congratulated this country on its achievement in this field. Coming, as most of these people do, from places where racial violence has often reached fever pitch, our local scene probably looks almost too good to be true … but just how much credit, if any, do we really deserve? How much is just luck? How much is really a legacy from the past? And how much is primarily due to the Maori people themselves? Let us have a look at some of the main historical factors involved. In the first place, the Maori race has had the ‘good luck’ … or whatever you like to call it … to be of the same basic Caucasian European stock as the Pakeha. A little ‘coloured’ blood got mixed in along the way; but by and large the Maori is not very different. In fact, many are not even dark enough to be recognised as such, once their behaviour patterns have become thoroughly westernised. Probably the most important piece of ‘good luck’ has been the fact of small numbers. At their lowest economic and social ebb in the 1880s, the Maori people numbered only about 42,000. This had at least two very far reaching results. When men like Pomare and Buck began their great campaign for social improvement in the 1890s, their task was, geographically speaking, a manageable one. Similarly, in the 1930s, when social security was first intro-