Colour Bar in Hotel

Or again, in Whangarei a week or so ago, a Maori jockey who is well-respected in the Waikato and two friends arranged accommodation at a hotel. When they went in to finalise matters the person receiving guests apologised but said that they could not provide accommadation for the Maori jockey in the party. They were told—"We cater for Europeans only."

Recently in a local theatre Wellington audiences were shown a film which wasted twenty minutes explaining that Maoris aren't so very different from us! The effect was to give birth to an uneasy feeling that somewhere there were differences that weren't being mentioned. Apartheid is among us already!

Insidiously the formerly apathetic Kiwiis learning that he is on the brink of racial intolerance. The M.E.F. pamphlet tells us, "If racial relations were to deteriorate . . . we should have a grave national problem." In other words "Pay up or admit y u are prejudiced." The fact of the matter is that we already have a grave national problem caused, not by colourprejudice, but by Government negligence in the past, and public apathy.