to give him the addresses of two other flats because their owners have specifically stated ‘No Polynesians’. The agent also fails to give him the address of a third flat because he assumes that the owner would not want a non-Pakeha tenant. This agent is committing an unlawful act within the meaning of the Race Relations Act and he is liable accordingly. I said he is liable accordingly—well a great and perhaps new legal concept in the Act is that it provides for conciliation, and that is why the administrator of the Act is called a Conciliator. Now conciliation tries to do two things. It has to remove the public wrong of discrimination, which is an offence against the well-being of the community, and it has to remedy the private wrong done to the victim of discrimination. Conciliation, in spite of the nice soft flavour of the word, is not in the long run necessarily soft—it is itself a method of law-enforcement. The first object is to proceed quietly and gently to settle the trouble—in other words to bring about the situation which would have occurred if there had been no unlawful discrimination—for example to get the Polynesian tenant into the flat, willingly accepted by the landlord who now realises his legal duty: in the employment field, to get the job for the qualified complainant. Then there are other desirable things. One is to obtain an apology from the offending party and a statement promising his future compliance with the law. Another could be perhaps the payment of some moderate compensation or expenses if that seemed appropriate. If this conciliation approach is not successful, then the Conciliator will report to the Attorney-General who, in an appropriate case, will take proceedings in the court against the offending party. In these proceedings the court may make all necessary orders and also award damages where suitable. Here is the iron fist, which the velvet glove has been concealing. May I say, here in Auckland, that these provisions are serious and they are meant seriously. And I would like to bring them particularly to the serious attention of landlords and land agents, because I can assure these people that these provisions will be firmly enforced. If anyone feels that he is the victim of racial discrimination in any of the areas I have mentioned, he should communicate either with my Auckland office or my Wellington office with an explanation of the details.

Conclusion So you see the law has at last come actually into the race relations field, but Maoris are not mentioned, Polynesians are not mentioned. Indeed, no racial group is mentioned by name at all, which is as it should be, and yet this particular law, the Race Relations Act, may well be one of the most important laws affecting the rights and well-being of Polynesians in our community.

More Pupils Now Learning Maori Teacher: Tena koutou tamariki ma (greetings to you all). Class: Tena koe (greetings to you). This is how a class in Maori language starts at Mangere Intermediate School and it demonstrates a new feature of learning in Auckland schools in recent years—the considerable increase in the teaching of the Maori language to both Maori and European pupils in our intermediate and secondary schools. Up to last year there was no Maori taught in intermediate schools and only in a few State secondary