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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 6. 1962.

M.E.F. Promotes Integration

M.E.F. Promotes Integration

All this is raising another big problem. The M.E.F. campaign is a big step towards full integration of the two cultures. Is cither culture inferior to the other? Should either culture dominate the other to the point of complete assimilation? Is full integration desirable? Many progressive thinkers from both cultures do not consider it so, and their opinions are not colour-biased either.

The last major objection to the M.E.F. campaign concerns the distribution of funds. Quoting Mr Hunn, April 20, 1962: "Our policy has not yet been determined. We are waiting till the Board of Trustees is complete." (Of the 8 members on the Board, 2 have not yet been appointed). Surely the Board should have been complete, and the distribution policy decided upon before the launching of the campaign?

Will the money go to scholarships for top-level I.Q. children? If so, how does this benefit the bulk of the Maori people? What happens to these scholarship children? Cut off by education from their natural environment, will they become just mediocre imitation pakehas?

Will funds be used to further housing in poor areas, and is this justified considering how the funds were raised? Which comes first-improvement of the economic condition of the Maori people, or improvement of the educational standard?