All Whites

In a later "Dominion." a three-column heading is devoted to our All Blacks, explaining loudly that their defeats have been due variously to illness, accident, and climate, not to mention hospitality (no doubt arranged by Africa's fifth column).

Under a rather smaller heading are the results gained by our, till then, victorious Maori team. So although the Trade Unionists forgot their threats of intervention with the All Black team's transport, we are not deprived of our quiet leer.

But this kow-towing of New Zealanders to another country's baseness docs not stop at this. Here is a complaint from a New Zealand engineer working in South Africa. It is not the kind of thing the Press would publish.

He has a good position, but feels that, for the sake of his children's education, he must come back to New Zealand. For, as soon as his five-year-old is ready to toddle off to school, he must be provided with a little black boy. Even at that age, a Sahib will lose prestige if he is seen to carry his own books.

(It is knowing this that I can now understand the look of incredulity and horror on the face of a newly immigrated little Sahib in one of my classes when I asked him to clean the paint off the desks in his row.)