(by Cathy Benefield)

Recently all publicity media have been saturated with emotional appeals to your pride and your purse, on behalf of the current campaign for the Maori Eduction Foundation. You have been subjected to a deliberate distortion of the situation from which the campaign arises. This article is written, not to invalidate the need for a solution but to present a more balanced perspective of the problem.

For:

(Quoted from M.E.F. propaganda) "The Foundation is an independent statutory authority jointly managed by Maori and pakeka trustees. Its objects are to foster post-primary technical and university education, and trade and vocational training among the Maori people. It aims to raise Maori educational standards to equal those of the pakeha. If racial relations were to deteriorate through a weakness in Maori educational standards we should have a grave national problem. All New Zealanders can help avert such a possibility by supporting the campaign."

"Because New Zealanders traditionally stand for racial equality it is fell that the Foundation will have a strong public appeal. Now is your chance to have a stake in it by supporting the Maori Education Foundation. It has the full support of both Parliamentary parties."