Volume 46, Issue 22 Thursday 14th September, 1972 Free to students — 5c on the streets Registered fo r transmission by post as a newspaper. ______J

OLYMPIA’S M ACK SEPTEMBER - A PHASE IN THE WAR

The Palestinian guerillas killed the Israelis they were holding as hostages at Munich after they were fired upon by the German police. Outside the Arab world, the press has been universal in condemning the guerillas as cold-blooded terrorists.

The guerillas had originally stated that they intended to kill the hostages if their demands were not met by a certain deadline — they did not do this. This does not indicate a readiness to slaughter the men they were holding. It appears more likely that had the German marksmen not fired there would have been a greater chance of the Israelis being alive today. However what-ever happened in this instance the responsibility would have been put on the shoulders of the “terrorists” by the bourgeois press. This makes just about any move the Germans could make look justifiable in the circumstances.

The guerillas have made deliberate decisions concerning their existence in the world, the conditions in their homeland and the alternatives open to them to effect change. Taking the Israelis hostage was a desperate act, when the guerillas who are as old as most of the students on this campus, were shot at, it is not hard to see that they all thought that they were about to be killed. The significance of the hostages being participants in the Olympics is that the act of the guerillas, their demands and more importantly their existence and where they come from is given the maximum publicity in the presses TE REO MAAORII ROTO ITEENEIRA of the world. This is not an isolated act of “ terrorism” . It is related to a particular situation in the world that Maaori, kia mau wawe ai te reo Paakeha. Ko to raatau Tiihei uriuri whkaaro ka mau tonu te reo Maaori i nga taitamariki i a doesn't change because international events like the Tiihei nakonako raatau e haututuu ana, e taakaro ana, aa, ma nga kaainga Olympics are taking place. (The spirit of healthy Tiihei Mauriora! kohi e whakaako. He mea pooheehee rawa teenei. Kua competition and brotherhood didn't prevent the kite taatau i te hua ni teenei raa. Kua timu te tai. reactionary Mexican government from killing 400 E nga iwi o te motu, teenaa koutou, teenaa koutou, Hoiano ra kei te hahae nga kaawainga o te ata - he demonstrators during the 1968 Olympics.) ! teenaa koutou. Ko te reo irirangi o ngaa taitamariki mihi raa hou teenei. Kua ohooho katoa te iwi Maaori me te !atu nei ki a koutou katoa. Kua taae mai te waa e tongo ! Paakeha. Ko nga Maaori kua nuku ki nga taaone nunui o The outraged reaction is not so much the fact that atu ana maatou, kia aawhinatia mai maatou. Ko ta maatou | te motu noho ai, kua tuutaki ki eetahi aahuatanga pai, hostages were taken and killed but that this should I j kaupapa teenei ki a koutou, ki te iwi Maaori, kia j aahuatanga rerekee, kua rongo i te haa o te ao Paakeha me happen at the Olympics. There was none of the same whakamanaatia te reo Maaori ki roto i ngaa kura katoa o oona wetiweti. Ko te nuinga o te ao Maaori kei te poipoi sense of moral outrage from the press when 32 haere moiho te noho, aanoo he poito taaruke, he huru Aotearoa. Maa to koutou kaha ki te tu e tuutuki ai teenei Palestinians were killed after a refugee camp was shot up manu e tere haere ana i te moana ngarungaru. Ko te mate ! take. Noreira, e hoa maa, kia ora anoo koutou katoa, c by Israel; jets in retaliation. nui he kore turangawaewae, araa he kore marae hei punga noho mai nga iwi i runga i te whenua. Ko te pupuri i te wairua Maaori i roto i nga taaone nei. Huri atu, ! whakamuturangi teenei. huri atu, he tikanga Paakaha katoa. Aanini ana teeraa! reo te tatau ki roto ki te hinengaro Maaori, No reira e Kia tau te rangimaarie— — Kua tiimata te raparapa haere i nga maramara Ka pu te ruhe kaha nei te ako. Ko eetahi ano kua ngaakaunui, kua paa te waihoihotanga a nga koroua, a, hei aha hoki? Hei mauri aroha a te tangata ki te tangata, a, e hiahiatia ana kia Ka haao te rangatahi tuu, hei mauri ora i roto i te ao hou nei. Ka hoki ra nga moohio tootika ki te reo kia ngaawari ai te whakarongo, — Naa Te Hati Ponika. whakaaro ki te pepeha a Apirana i tohutohu mai ra: te koorero raanei, i roto i te huihuinga tangata. Ko eetahi “ Ko too ngakau ki nga taonga a o tipuna atu he pirangi kia whiwhi ia i teetahi waahi o te “ He purapura i ruia mai i Rangiaatea” — k o Hei tikitiki mo te mahuna.” Maaoritanga nei moana ake, hei whakamaahorahora i ana to taatau reo teenei. Koia nei te mea e whaaia nei e te hanga tamariki i whakaaro, kia eke ai taua koorero, “ He iwi kotahi He maha nga aahuatanga e whakaata mai ana roto i eenei ra - ko te tikitiki mo te maahuna. Kia taatau.” Na anoo, ko nga whakatipuranga Paakeha o angatika ai te tuu, kia kaua e waimeha, e ngoikore raanei. ki a taatau kei te kaingaakautia to taatau reo eenei raa, kei te rapa tura — ngawaewae mo tana wairua Maaori — otiraa to taatau Maaoritanga — e te ao Kia tamataane te tinana me te hinengaro; kia kore ai e kia taea ai te kii, “Tuuturu! No Aotearoa au!” Kua ngaro whakamaa ki te haaparangi ki te ao, rawa atu te wairua o o raatau maatau tiipuna — he rite whaanui o Aotearoa. Ko taaua ko te Maaori kei te “He Maaori au! Anei ooku tohu! Ko taku kiri parauri! koingo ki to raaua reo, aa, ko te Paakeha kei te tonu te rere whakaarorangi o te ngaakau ki te waa kaainga Ko taku reo! Ko taku Maaoritanga!” Na reira, e pari ra e ki Ingarangi, ki Uropa. Inaianei kua noho ko teenei kaha te whaiwhai haere. He aha ra i peenei ai? ta tai ...... whenua, ko Niu Tiireni te kaainga tuuturu te uukaipoo. Kei te moohio taatau ki te hiitori o te reo Maaori, mai He aha ra te take e whaiwhaitia ai to taatau reo — aa -Engari he aha te tohu? Anei ra taa taaua koha maana; te i te taenga mai o te Paakehaki teenei whenua, tae mai ki taatau tikanga Maaori, e te Paakeha, i eenei raa? Inaahoki, Maaoritanga me toona puuawaitanga - te reo Maaori. teenei raa hoki. Ehara i te koorero papai aua koorero. inanahi nei e tuhaina ana e ia. He aha te kaupapa? He Hoiano ko te waahi pai, ko te waa i tae mai ai nga maho moni maana? Teeraa pea! No reira, kia ora te ra nei me toona kaupapa. Ko te mihinare ka tiimata ki te whakaako i nga taitamariki me Ki taaku nei waananga atu i teenei mea, anei. Tirohia tuumanako kia puta ki te ao katoa te maaramatanga o nga pakeke ki te koorero pukepuka, ki te tuhituhi hoki. I te Paakeha. Ko raatau e whakahau ana i nga waa katoa, teenei raa; kia kite o taatau joa Paakeha i too taatau aakona i roto i te reo Maaori, kaaore i te reo Paakeha. He kia noho ngaatahi taatai, kia oorite katoa taatau, kia tika wairua; kia oho mai ki te whakaaro o te iwi ehara too mea aataahua teenei, he mea miiharo. Engari, i muri mai, i ai te koorero ra — “He iwi kootahi taatau..” Engari kia taatau reo i te mea taatakimori — kaaore! — ko ia te j roto i nga muu, i nga nekenekenga a Kawana Kerei me paataitia atu, “Kai rote ki aa wai, ki a koutoui, ki a maatou whakatinanatanga o te oohaki a ngaa tiipuna: oona aapiha i roto i te Tari o Nga Kura ka tiimata te raanei?” Ka rongo tonu atu koe i te hikomga o toonaa “ Kia u, kia mau ki to Maaoritanga,” parepare haere i to taatau reo. Kaaore ko te tuumanaki, ngaakau. E! Kia rite ra ki a ia, kaua kia rrite mai ki te Po! Kia ngaro rawa atu. Ko te kaupapa o teeraa whakaaro, Maaori. Ko taatay me nekeneke atu ki toonaa taha, aa, ko Naa Tamati M. Reedy. he kuuware no taatau ki te reo Paakeha. Mehemea koianei ia kore rawa e nuku. Koinei taana whakamaacori i to taatau he reo tuuturu mo te reo Maaori, aakino ki te reo Ingarihi karangatanga, “He Niu Tiireni taatau katoaa.” E, ko te - panaia atu te reo M aaori ki waho. Kaaore e kore, koira korokoro o Parata teenei! ACKNOWLEDGEMENT te whakaaro. Engari ano, no o taatau tiipuna tonu teetahi Otiraa kei te huri haere oonaa whakaarro. Kua kaha Nineteenth century photographs or early Maori life have been waahanga o te hee, no te mea i whakaae tonu eetahi o eetahi Paakeha ki te aru haere i nga tikanga aa te Maaori ki courteously made available by the Dominion Museum, Wellington, through john B. Turner, Elam School o f Fine Arts. ! raatau, kia kaua e aakona nga mahi kura i roto i te reo te whakauruuru ki nga tomokanga o te ao Maori. Ko te

APOLOGY In the article "Shit is Junk", attributed to one Rod Bicknell, published on 30th In the a rticle published on the 30 June (issue 16) attributed to Rod Bicknell there June (Issue 16), a reference is made to the name Perry dealing with responsibility for is a reference to Detective Sergeant B.J. Stewart and allegations made as to his being spreading drugs among the public and to the acceptance of bribes in the course of his responsible for the spread of drugs in New Zealand and that he has accepted bribes and duties. has been p o litically motivated. The Students' Association and the Editors acknowledge with respect to Chief The Students’ Association and the Editors acknowledge that they have no evidence Inspector E.G. Perry that these allegations are unfounded and are accordingly whatsoever to substantiate such allegations which are unreservedly withdrawn and 1 unreservedly withdrawn. They apologise for any reflection upon Mr Perry's integrity as they apologize to Detective Sergeant Stewart for any reflection upon his integrity as a a Police Officer. police off icier." 1 NZUSA NEEDS A PRESIDENT BECAUSE NO ONE LOVES He proposed that : SUNDAY (a) Attempts to forma national union of students continue, and continue money mumbling. Otago's Treasurer must GARY EM M S the STANZ-NZUSA merger to fall through be congratulated for keeping up a steady torrent of FROM HEATHER MCINNES IN WELLINGTON (b) A manifesto for NZUSA be drafted, outlining a basic ideology grumbles and boring us all MORE! than Parliamentarians (c) A significant proportion o f NZUSA's welfare resources be en masse could've in such time. SATURDAY: COUNCIL RECONVENES used for people who are really needy - non-students In amongst the money motions, $1000 was allocated to (d) NZUSA extend its educative functions by disseminating Being not a clever politician myself, this is no doubt Anti-Apartheid activities, although this has not yet been information on topics of policy importance a naive misjudgement of the people I watched for specifically directed to any organisation, and $1000 to fe) NZUSA adopt policies based on constituent policies three hours mouthing half-hearted dishonest gripes an International Research Officer., who will collate and about NZUSA. And it seemed to take this time of among other things, and felt the liberal-reformist stance send out the information at present coming in and being apparently prepared questions directed at Presidential to be the most representative of students in general, and buried in NZUSA office. A successful ploy by the aspirant Gary Emms before Rob Campbell of Victoria also the most plausible one for NZUSA to maintam International Commission to double the amount allocated deemed his candidate had had enough time to show Margaret Flanagham (Canterbury) seemed the only person for anti-tour activities was made, and the International his colours (rather wan, I thoughtj^to the voters. prepared to give the views of her constituents, to which Research Officer will probably spend his time in Anti- Then he announced that he didn'Hfte didn t'the discussion was pro­ all delegates referred importantly and emptily. In fact, • Apartheid activities. ductive. So big boy Cuthbert asked around the table for Emms, Reid (Victoria) and Campbell (Victoria) were the By 2.30 pm, money was well spent, and the next item on representatives' views on the submissions put forward by only ones present of aboutthirty reps who said that, the agenda was disuccssingpolicy and tactics. Peter Fletcher Karl Gordon (President-elect, Waikato) and Gary Emms, regardless of any priorities which might be laid down, (Waikato) vociferously denounced the present NZUSA the afore mentioned presidential aspirant and one time in the end it was only the people on Council that matter­ structure, reiterating to a somewhat antagonistic President of Massey, now Education Vice Pres, NZUSA. ed - for they were there as individuals. If they attempted Council that this was why Waikato was not participating Basically, Carl Gordon's submissions were: to represent their constituents accurately, NZUSA would at this meeting, although they were prepared to take part 1. Should student politicians lead or represent? The not exist because of apathy. in what they hoped would be a constructive discussion on NZUSA's future. present fiasco o f 'representatives' adopting policies, Therefore, claimed Campbell, the important thing was to which their constituents have not even discussed and get down to the business of the people involved, to So we went on to a repeat of the unresolved soul-search= may not even beinterested in, and includes endless self- question the Presidential candidates, and then vote. Then ing, Campbell forcefully repeating that policy was seeking and back stabbing,is intolerable. they should move on to the $40,000 annual income of dependant on the personalities, and their intentions as 2. Should NZUSA centralise or decentralise? I t seems that NZUSA, and how to use it. In reply to Bartlett's charge Presidential candidates. This seemed to signal what a truly national union of students is strongly desired. of 'presumption' , Campbell, in the only display of life superficially was full confidence In NZUSA speech The administrative functions o f NZUSA could be rational- all day said he would immediately do away with Welfare sessions. Fletcher's main area of concern seemed to be ised so that constituents could take over purely local matters. Vice Presidents and such rubbish, and devote the the total disregard of delegates to represent their students RICH Regardless o f these proposals, constituents must communicate $40,000 to stopping the tour, and make damned sure - and this was borne out by a round the table check by more effectively and responsibly with one another. it did stop the tour. Cuthbert. Canterbury was the only delegation which had 3. Should NZUSA become a radical, m ilitant pressure-group Then to my utmost horror, they started quibbling over taken discussion of the previous sessions of NZUSA The or a selfish, welfare-oriented middle-class club? Between money. I read Salient and went home. I am told they Winter Council back to their students. The other dele­ these extremes there are many other positions. bickered until seven that evening, only to return at 9 am gates had taken reports back to their executives, but found excuses - like'there was no policy to take back' - Nl) for slipping up on their responsibilities. MIAIV Once again, no one was prepared to say anything of Vietnam relevance, which Eletcher was quick to point out. ‘1D’ falls but may rise again John Milne. a young ABANDON NZUSAP am back INSTINCTIVE IMPULSES Focus didn’t sell it did well with advertising and was lied to an RUBBISHES MAGAZINE essentially run as a give-away (along the same lines as Mike Law then said that chucking NZUSA would be a His em Craccum but with a much higher advertising revenue. ID disastrously stupid thing to do - this was playing into the the speake Report on the Bishop/Holyoake ID Proposal hands of people like Sir Roy Jack, who have been forced have the f< would be easier to manage as a give-away, but if a paper These • is at the mercy of advertisers it is too limited to make to respect and listen to NZUSA in their submissions on muggy Tu The Board at its meeting of 8 August 1972 resolved the any important contribution over and above what already for example, Equal Pay. He claimed that the problem delivering fo llow in g: exists on the national scene. was not so much with NZUSA but with the individual crowd o f n plunged in "THAT the Company do not proceed with the 3) A price of 35-40c was not mentioned in the Students' Associations - they must maintain their relevance to their students. to the hoi scheme proposed by John Bishop and Rex original statement, but judging from current Earwig to the alre; Carl Gordon then put forward, rather too tentati vely, H o ly o a k e ". (40c) returns it doesn’t inhibit sales to the “ youth of the The spi nation” . the suggestion that had been discussed vaguely during grosser acc 1. The style and content of the publications, that the ID, in some revamped form, still deserves support. tea breaks - that of two national student bodies, one to newsreels prospective editors had originally proposed and subsequently continue as NZUSA, the administrative/welfare/research before wii proposed—stapled, properly covered, half tabloid Previous attempts to promote it have had about them pursuit an magazine—were neither what the Board nor the Shareholders organisation for students, and the other to exist as a the stamp of “doing our liberal duty”, which is a good weaved at were wanting. In particular Board members expressed radical political gathering/pressure group/action group. opinions that the subsequent proposal sounded too much like enough beginning but it will never give the momentum with the p FOCUS. needed to launch a new magazine. Unfortunately, he did not point out that membership of submarine, encounter Economically, the proposal was not viable. one need not necessarily preclude membership of the other, or that they could be complementary in their were beck< 2. It was accepted that fo r several, if not many issues, nothing UNTRIED POSSIBILITIES An hoi like the full print run would be sold, particularly with the functions, Let’s get back to first principles. 1.1, proposed a everyone s small amount of promotion the Company could afford. Law returned that this showed gutlessness. rains came This would cause an increase in the required return per copy. magazine of “ topical comment and analysis, orientated Then the meeting moved on to the election of the the chant, towards the younger sector of the community.” This fits Added to this would be either a commercial President. Two nominations had been received - from flood the i distributor/retailer margin or a distributor-to-pusher margin “ THURSDAY” , “COCK” , “ EARW IG”, and the recent rain!’’ unt which would load the publications price to the 35 cent to 40 Emms and Don Swann, of Massey. They were grilled arrival, “ UNCOOL” . Last year it would also have fitted seed the ra cent range.. gingerly by several delegates, and neither showed any “ A F F A IR S ” . If NZUSA doesn’t feel it can set up its At this This price range would both inhibit sales to the "youth of the sign of belief in anything (except NZUSA, which was of — the ma own national publication, could it not endorse and nation" to whom the publication is supposedly directed and course politic) thus totally denigrating the discussions In the ' to the general public. promote one or more of the existing ones? Or establish a scores of before. Not unexpectedly, on the first vote, neither won The loss so produced would be a substantial lia b ility to the hybrid . . . imagine street sellers screaming: hundreds < company if not forcing it into liquidation. the election. So, as a majority vote is needed for a faces paint ‘ ‘ e e e e e e a aaaaaaarrrrrrOC K ! ! ! stage make The Board believed that a publication produced on this basis Presidential election, Swann was out of the running, and could take 18 months to tw o years before an issue began to fooorrrrtttteeeeecentscheap” — a soothing new sound a vote to affirm a majority on Emms was taken. This babies con: break even. The Company does not have the financial from the depths of the Queen Street monoxide. It all did not happen, and once again NZUSA does not have a This nr resources, guarantees not-withstanding, to stand a continued outside the loss of this nature issue after issue fo r even 6 months. depends wheter we want something gutsy and President for 1973. This is the foudfc time a vote has guerilla t Even if the Company were able to afford substantial adventurous, or a junior Woman’s Weekly. been taken, and the fifth time that Emms has failed to photograpl promotion and were prepared to subsidise the price, over a A second possibility is a weekly or fortnightly attain a majority of votes. One would think that that luxuriously sustained period of tim e, the costs of such prom otion and in itself would indicate to someone they weren't planes wei subsidisation, the Board believed, would be unlikely to be tabloid, with some affinity in style to Australia’s chain link wanted. However, nominations will be received for the recouped within a year. “NATION REVIEW ” (sells well at 30c) which has met by pi position of President 73 until 5 pm, Monday November The inescapable conclusion is that the Company lacks a continued to be freewheeling, irreverent and even exlinguishe sound financial basis and is unable at the current time to 6th. Hopefully, this will ensure that a President is defiance of profitable. But although the Review is part of the liberal obtain sufficient financial backing to produce a publication chosen at the Executive meeting later that month. “ Street of the quality and style desired. tradition, there might not be a printer in NZ prepared to If you know anyone who would like a job for $2500 pa protests, f< Richard Shorter fighting ai Chairman handle it. ls NZUSA brave enough to establish its own and $1000 expense account, in Wellington but much printery? insinuated travelling required by the position...... with anotl BLUNDERS Before we’re going to get anywhere on a new ID, Heather Mclnnes Nixon. As one of the nasties against the ID proposal, I find newspaper staffs will have to try a good deal harder to Througl keep in touch. We’re in no position to bargain as long as right-wing myself even less impressed by the way the 1.1, board has way they vetoed it. The report contains blunders and NZUSA is nicely sewn up by the politicians and the CASH NOW FOR TEXTS seemed the misunderstandings as follows: paper people are scattered to the winds. they respo We w ill pay Vi o f new price fo r texts prescribed or 1) No mention was made in the Bishop / Holyoake impressive The Disgusting Editors: Heather Mclnnes, Gordon Clifton recom m ended for 1973 (correct editions only). Generation proposal of ‘stapling’ or a ‘proper cover’ (see p3 speech era* Craccum 3/8/72). Technical Editor: Jim Laing Photogenic: John Miller their neatl 2) The 1.1. Board carefully reiterated what was said Muckedrakers: John Milne, Bob Hillier “ Right on! •in Craccum about the similarity between ID and FOCUS Adviertisements: James Sloane ______“ Do ,nt — if they took this a step further they might have arrival in I ERROR - Don’t go n noticed that FOCUS was, give or take a little, quite Ms A. Denny's phone number 768-906 NOT 768-069 as reporte JASON SECONDHAND BOOKS or you will viable. Had its glossy cover, staples and libel suits been din last week's Craccum in conjunction with the article So rigie removed it would probably have made money. Although ALTERNATIVE TO OUR SECONDARY EDUCATION SYSTEM. | 50 H igh St (ppp W hitcom bes) Ph. 370-266 burn office NATIONAL MAORI LANGUAGE DAY DVES SEPTEMBER 14TH Sept. 14th is National Maori Language Day. Briefly, easurer must this means that on Sept. 14th the existence of a vital >rrent of Maori language, ideas for the teaching of Maori language irliamentarians and the consequent development of it’s place in the New Zealand society, and some simple phrases from the allocated to language itself will be brought to our attention. The mass not yet been news media and person to person contacts will be utilised id $1000 to to bring about a forceful expression of confidence in te I collate and reo maori as a living and necessary part of our bi-cultural I in and being society. y by the Questions: ls the Maori language living? ls it’s retention iount allocated necessary or even possible? iternational If “living” means “spoken by a significant number of ne in Anti- people” , the answer to the first question is “ yes” . There has been, and this could be taken as an indication of next item on governments’ former antipathy and present relative (to :s. Peter Fletcher the so-called “ bread and butter issues” ) unconcern towards the encouragement of Maori language, no reliable snt NZUSA survey on the number of Maori-speaking people in New antagonistic Zealand. Dr Bruce Biggs in The Maori People in the participating Nineteen-sixties makes what he calls an informed guess. d to take part He says that almost all the old Maori people speak Maori discussion fluently, over half those aged between 30 and 40, and under half of those aged below 30. A.C. Walsh in More soul-search= and More Maoris supports these estimations. :y was Geographically, Maori as the primary language is :entions as concentrated in the rural areas especially the East Coast of al what the North Island, parts of the Waikato and the King speech Country, the northern tip of the North Island, south of ;med to be Lake Taupo and d ’Urville Island. A greater proportion of their students the Maori people would understand Maori than that which i check by RICHARD NEVILLE: speaks it. Also, practically every Maori uses his language 3n which had to add to his English. While it is true that the percentage sIZUSA The Republican Convention; leftist disunity of the Maori people who speak fluent Maori is declining, >ther dele- and has been for generations, there is no doubt that the ves, but remaining percentage is large enough to be significant as a jke back' - NIXON & AMERIC0NG IN COMBAT communicatory and a sociological factor of present-day MIAMI BEACH (UPS)------“ I was drafted to that hardened reporters spread rumors that they were hired Maori society. hing of hands. Vietnam to be humiliated, lied to and shot at!” shouted But the Maori language is living in more ways than this. out. If only it were true. a young man outside the Fontainebleau Hotel. ‘‘Now I In sad reality, Youth for Nixon are genuine fanatics who As a language it is technically capable of adapting to am back home to be harassed by secret agents, further need little encouragement to display their enthusiasm fo r present day conditions. It has borrowed English words lied to and spat upon by my government.” President Nixon. The old dream o f yippie was that kids would and adapted them to the Maori alphabet and ould be a His emotion overflowed into the crowd, many of whom, like kill their parents’ culture. But that culture is still alive — and pronunciation. So that “table” becomes “ teepu” and ung into the the speaker, were clad in battle fatigues, although they didn’t kicking back. I was in the convention hall when this bubble gum generation stormed the floor, mouths foaming in ecstacy at the “ committee” becomes “ komiti” . These word are often been forced have the former disadvantage of being confined to a wheelchair. criticised as being “ Maorified English” and it is implied These were the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. It was a confirmation of Nixon’s nomination, and along with the black lissions on muggy Tuesday afternoon, and three, crippled veterans were mayor of Tallahassee I stood dazed as they danced about that they illustrate a lack in the Maori language. Yet problem delivering a formal letter o f protest inside the hotel while a hysterically for 20 minutes in a frenzy of conquest, both of us present-day English is the result of centuries of extensive ndividual crowd o f marchers rested by the roadside. When some o f the vets too scared to reveal the true nature o f our feelings, watching borrowing. Naturally a language has no word for a transfixed with diplomatic smiles. their plunged into the uninviting water of a muddy estuary adjacent concept or an object that did not exist when that language to the hotel, a patrol boat immediately appeared — in addition Youth for Nixon was a potent force in Miami, popping up to the already encircling army helicopter. everywhere a royal family member was scheduled to appear, was evolving. We do not say that English is an inadequate itati vely, The spirit of unarmed street people when confronted by the usually accompanied by a racy Dixieland band, elevating in langugae because it has borrowed the word “ hotel” from ly during grosser accouterments of power is something I had learned from unison the four fingers of their right hands in a gesture of salute the French. No more so Maori for borrowing it and reminiscent of Nazi Germany, chanting “ Four more years . . . ies. one to newsreels of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Belfast, but never adapting it to “ hotera” . It is true that the adaptions before witnessed. Those in the water instinctively set off in Four more years . . . Four more years . . .” ire/research What does Miami mean fo r the protest movement? required by Maori to fully express the modern situation cist as a pursuit and began splashing the occupants o f the boat, which weaved about in apprehension. Roadside spectators, familiar Basically, that it is in a state of shambles. Flamingo Park, on are many, yet for Maori to reach this standard of on group, with the process o f overkill, half-expected the surfacing o f a U.S. the final Wednesday, conjured up an image o f what it must have expression is by no means impossible. Get rid of the nbership of submarine. But the return march got underway before the been like on the eve of the final battle of the Confederate Army. rubbish that Maori as a so-called “ primitive” language is p of the encounter could escalate into catastrophe, and the swimmers Police had virtually sealed the convention hall, reniging on prior agreements made with movement representatives. In the incapable of encompassing modern living. The Maori in their were beckoned ashore. An hour or so later, as the march neared Flamingo Park, with future, such bargaining should be undertaken w ith more cunning language is a living one in another very important sense. everyone sweating profusely and on the brink of exhaustion, the and less candor. Was there any need to publish the final sit-in Despite generations of systematic supression, primarily rains came thundering down. “ Rain! Rain! Stop the w ar!” began plans days in advance and distribute them to the police? through the State educational system, has refused to >f the the chant, which later evolved into “ Rains flood the dikes! Rains The park lacked, during the crucial final hours, a proper communications system. “ Leaders” were compelled to address disappear. In 1871 Maori was banned in schools and ed - from flood the dikes!” , progressing to “ We Seed the rain! We seed the rain!” until it finally matured into "They seed the rain! They small contingents o f demonstrators and then set o ff on sit-ins Continued page 14 .... e grilled seed the rain!” with the foreknowledge of certain arrest. I recall Allen Ginsberg /ved any At this point, the march collided with “ Street Without Joy” rehearsing his unit with the chant o f “ A hhhhhhhh,” designed lich was of — the march of the Vietnamese dead. not to avoid incarceration but to keep tempers pleasantly refrigerated. .cussions In the wake of two giant papier mache airplanes held aloft by scores o f people wearing masks o f Richard N ixon’s face were Those not inclined to volunteer as lemmings formed neither won hundreds o f demonstrators dressed as Vietnamese peasants, their spontaneous affinity groups intending to block traffic and set off for a faces painted white to symbolize death. Many of them had used armed only with damp kerchiefs and potatoes to stuff up unning, and stage make-up to affect gruesome injuries and carried brutalized exhaust pipes. Although uncoordinated and outnum bered, some of the a ffin ity groups displayed remarkable d e x te rity and in. This babies constructed also from papier mache. This march proceeded to the regular demonstration site determination in blocking intersections and snarling traffic. not have a outside the convention hill. It was a prerehearsed exhibition of Over the next few months, radicals will be searching >te has guerilla theater, dutifully observed by helicopters, FBI desperately for new strategies. One possibility will be an alliance failed to photographers mounted on surrounding apartment buildings and with disenchanged liberals. Ironically, as the left suffers a crisis that that luxuriously armed contingents of Miami police. Finally the of identity and confidence, former establishment figures such as planes were set alight by the Americong and hurled over the Daniel Ellsberg, the Berrigans and Ramsey Clark are renouncing n't form er alliances and collaborating with the peace m ovem ent. ed for the chain link fence into the convention enclosure, where they were met by police wielding a portable fire extinguisher. But the The expedient necessity o f such alliances is depressing news fo r November extinguisher proved defective, and the B52’s blazed away in those whose optimism was baptised by the visions o f the ’60’s. mt is defiance of those who tried to quench them. Many still pin their dreams on MdGovern, but if he loses )nth. “Street Without Joy” was the grand finale of pre-planned dramatically the revolutionary left will be isolated. Already it is smitten with sectarianism. There is no accepted consensus of $2500 pa protests, for on the morrow was the chaos o f scattered street fighting and mass arrests. On Tuesday evening, however, I analysis or strategy. Former activists are writhing from deep t much insinuated myself inside the convention hall, where I mingled personal alienation. There is a dearth of upcoming leadership and with another breed of energetic demonstrators — Youth for the horizon is clouded by the bubblegum kids marching to the M clnnes Nixon. beat of the White House. Maybe Miami will be seen as the Alamo Throughout the week it was reiterated w ith pride that these o f the old New Left. Maybe the sixties are over. right-wing firebrands had paid their own fares down — from the CRACCUM PHOTOS ON SALE way they dressed and the style o f their accommodations, it seemed they could afford it. To my questions about Vietnam Proof sets of the hundreds of photos taken they responded, “ A ll’s fair in love and war,” an epigram which is for Craccum are now available for inspection in cribed or impressive only by its inhum anity. These are the Pepsi the Craccum office (including all th e Arts /)• Generation: clean-cut, aglow w ith genital deodorants, their speech crackling with all the wit of hair-spray commercials and Festival pix). their neatly pressed wardrobes set o ff w ith badges reading 10” x 8 ” prints of any of these m ay be save "Right on! Mr President.” “Do ,nt go near Flamingo Park,” they were warned on ordered at $1.00 each. arrival in Miami, “ or you will be photographed by the FBI. Orders (with payment) should be made and Don’t go near the convention hall except by pre-arranged order, collected from the Studass office unless you can or you w ill be confused w ith radicals and end up on police files.” So rigidly were they organized (being commanded even to place them directly with John M ille r at 66 burn office propaganda lest it fall among irresponsible elements) Craccum. Make sure you get a receipt. How White ls Our Im m igration Policy ?

This is reprinted from a booklet by Richard Northey and Brian to maintain the unbalanced ‘racial balance’ are the best Lythe, published by Wackrow Enterprises Ltd, Balmoral, ones. A uckland. (b) There is false emphasis in the policy that restrictions on unskilled migrants are part of a humanitarian plan to help The Present Basic Approach Maoris. The content of Official printed material of the 6. There is arrogant complacency towards wider issues which Immigration Division of the Labour Department shows grows from ‘N.Z. is proud to be largely free of racial strife’ that Government policy is based on premises which which reassures the “ right thinking” that they are doing display confused concepts of assimilation and integration. something benevolent by maintaining and building contacts with White South Africa. The following quotes come from a summary of Immigration 7. It is ironic that N.Z. fears introduction of “ alien cultures” policy prepared by the Immigration Division dated September when N.Z. also claims to live so harmoniously w ith Maori. 1966. There have been no major changes since that date and the If New Zealanders are the world’s most practised people in criteria which applied at that time are still used today. groups as a whole have successfully “ assimilated” to our race relations why fear ‘alien’ cultures? (a) (Immigration policy) . . . “is dictated by the relative ease with way o f life in the past and have been “ prepared to accept 8. The Policy statement use o f emotive language and images. which different groups of people can be assimilated." our laws and social mores” . The use of “alien” rather than “different” or “ other” (b) “ Up to the present we have been able to absorb a very high 3. “ How widely their social and cultural heritage differs from cultures. The opening of the floodgates image, with proportion of our immigrants so successfully that within one our ow n.” consequent swamping of N.Z. ... is called up from generation they have become New Zealanders in the full sense In ascending order o f severity these restrictions can be summarised statements which begin “ the peoples o f Asia and Africa . .. of the word.” as follows: because there is population pressure and very large numbers (c) " The process of integration tends to be ineffective where the 1. New Zealand’s island territories, i.e. the Cook Islands, the of displaced persons, there is a tremendous demand for proportion of migrants is so high that they are encouraged to Tokelaus and Niue. None applied by immigration emigration to N.Z. These factors have caused us to place make their friends and their associations within their own authorities. Cost of fare and availability of transport limit even stricter lim itations . . .” racial group. The extent to which immigrants tend to adopt entry to those better off or with relatives in New Zealand. 9. The use of undefined term “average” New Zealander as an this attitude depends too on the degree in which their 2. Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Northern and essential requirement for the prospective immigrant to cultural heritage differs from that o f New Zealanders. ” Western Europe and the U.S.A. measure up to and emulate. The test o f successful (d) “ People who share a common heritage o f language and (a) Wholly of European Origin. No restrictions except “ assimilation” appears to be gauged on how quickly the tradition integrate very quickly". must be aged under 45 and o f good health and differences between the migrant and the “ average” N.Z’er (ef “ The greater and more obvious the difference between the character. are lessened. Maintenance o f differences means this person im migrant and the average New Zealander, the longer and (b) Wholly or partly non-European. Not specifically is not easily assimilable. No responsibility is placed on the more difficult the period of assimilation, and the greater the defined. In practice they require guaranteed “ average New Zealander” in his turn to be tolerant, open tendency of immigrants to hive off into little colonies which employment and accommodation in N.Z. and must j and adaptable to new migrants. become self-sufficient and resistant to the process of give satisfactory answers to questions on their assimilation. ” Assisted Immigration Programmes reasons fo r immigrating, their academic record, and (f) “Few barriers are placed in the way of immigrants from Great 1. Migrants from U.K., Eire, and Holland receive massive their religion. No doubt religion is the acid test as to B ritain and from Northern and Western Europe, because the assistance regardless o f skills. Migrant pays 2% o f the fare. whether they have an “ alien culture” . numbers offering have never been so large as to be 2. From Western Europe and the United States migrant pays 3. Samoa and other Polynesia (except Tonga) For entry they must have embarrassing, and because the process o f integration and 2% of fare. Migrants must be “ above unskilled level” . By assimilation is very simple." Western Europe is meant Common Market Countries, guaranteed employment in New Zealand and good reasons for coming put forward by prospective immigrant and (g) “Most of the countries of Southern and Eastern Europe are Switzerland, Austria and Scandinavian Countries. employer. traditionally countries o f large-scale emigration, and we have 3. Pacific Islands and all other Countries. No financial For permanent residence they must have found it necessary to place some im pedim ent in the way o f assistance fo r migrants. Most migrants from Western Samoa “demonstrated that they are settling down in their new immigrants ...” and other Pacific Islands apart from those under New country o f residence and are prepared to accept our laws (h) “ F iji is a special problem. Because o f the large intake o f Zealand administration pay in effect 300% fares, suffer and social mores” over a 5 year period since coming to New Polynesians from the Pacific Islands, we are not in a position restrictions of varying severity on their eligibility for entry. Zealand. to offer too many opportunities to inhabitants from other 4. If a person from a country of Assisted Passage Scheme is 4. Eastern and Southern Europe Pacific Island territories, particularly Fiji, from which the not “ of wholly European Origin” (source is Imm. Form 41) Brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, husbands, wives, greatest pressure comes. ” i) “ The peoples o f Asia and Africa, regardless of skills he w ill not be eligible fo r assisted being of a culture alien both passage. fiance(e)s and children of New Zealand citizens are admitted in most cases. Otherwise only a few “ for special to that of European and Polynesian New Zealanders, present Comments and Criticisms of these Programmes humanitarian reasons” and people w ith “ some special skill more difficult problems of assimilation than any others, and 1. Policy is discriminatory on grounds of race and national or quality” . because o f population pressure and very large numbers o f origin. This stems from all the false assumptions on which 5. F iji, Tonga, Melanesia and Micronesia. displaced persons, there is a tremendous demand for the overall im migration policy is based. (a) Non-Europeans and part Europeans "We consider emigration to N.Z. These factors have caused us to place even 2. Assumes that European people from racially and culturally application for permanent entry from fiance(e)s, stricter lim itations upon people from these countries than homogeneous backgrounds are better suited to adapt to a husbands, wives and children o f New Zealand upon South Eastern Europeans." multi-racial and multi-cultural society (which present N.Z. residents” . Also considered if “ there are special Government refuses to recognise) than are non-Europeans Some basic criticisms of this Approach:- circumstances on humanitarian or occupational who may already be in a racially and culturally grounds” . 1 • (a)Disagree with the validity of the terms ‘assimilation’ and heterogeneous society. ‘ Integration.’ (b) Europeans Treated the same as Europeans from 3. Arrogant assumption that all European people o f some (b) Absence of definition of the meaning of “ assimilation’ and Australia, Canada and the U.K. nations are naturally superior at being able to adapt and ‘ Integration’. If Government is going to persist in using 6. Asia and Africa learn skills. these terms then they must be defined, and the definitions (a) Non-Europeans and part-Europeans. Limited almost An unskilled person from U.K. or Holland for example is must be consistently applied. exclusively to "the wives and unmarried infant prejudged to be more socially and economically valuable children o f males resident in N.Z. and to wives, 2. Clear evidence of stereotyping of potential immigrants by than a skilled person from an excluded country. husbands and finance(e)s of N.Z. citizens” . A few race and national origin. Clearly, considerations o f race and 4. In fact the costs involved to attract migrants from “ suffering a special degree o f hardship” are admitted national origin are predominant guiding factors on the “homogeneous” origins could be reduced simply by as refugees and others are considered if they “ bring ability to fit into N.Z. society. There is belief that people of allowing entry to skilled people at present denied the right some special skill or q u a lity” . Because all must travel certain races regardless o f their country of origin, are more to enter N.Z. Also money spent on advertising for through Australia must also pass that country's capable of fitting in and adapting than are others. "homogeneous” migrants could better be used to process stringent entry requirements. 3. (a) Insistence that immigrants become New Zealanders “ in the Applicants from excluded countries who have already (b) Europeans Restrictions not specified. General full sense of the word” . New Zealand cannot tolerate applied. pattern seems to be that they must be guaranteed difference. The best thing that can be done for a person is 5. Policy holds an extremely narrow concept of employment and accommodation in New Zealand force him to conform. There is a desire for a homogeneous “ contribution” . Skill is not the only contribution a migrant but otherwise will be treated like people from their rather than a varied society. can make. What o f the contributions o f culture, language, original country of origin. (b) Insistence that immigrants become New Zealanders “ in the life-style; or by self employed craftsmen, writers, poets or full sense of the word” harbours arrogant assumptions that musicians? Comments on these General Restrictions the ‘N.Z. way of life’ is beyond question and cannot be 6. It .is noteworthy that the severe restrictions placed upon 1. Although in theory the variations in stringency of disturbed or varied, or developed by immigrants from migrants from Eastern and Southern Europe have since lim itations on immigration are based on national origin, it relatively different cultures. However, in our view migrants •1970 been stretched to include Italy w ithn Western Europe can be seen from the summary above that they are in fact from varied cultural backgrounds will enrich N.Z. apparently because o f Ita ly ’s inclusion in Common Market. prim arily based on race. From all countries Non-Europeans 4. (a) Failure to recognise the function o f group support and 7. Belief in the superiority and worth o f European culture can find it very much harder to be granted admission to New identity. There is a misunderstanding that destruction of be seen in Mr Marshall’s press statement o f 2nd September Zealand than do their European fellow citizens. group identity is better for the individuals and N.Z. Than 1970, p.3. “ The Government is also convinced that it w ill In no way can this be justified, even by the "alien cultures" the maintenance of group identity. bring the invigorating influence of other cultures and criterion. (b) When group» support and identity is undermined or not traditions to the N.Z. way of life. We owe a great deal to When a non-European is born and brought up in a country allowed to develop, deterioration of mental health may be the migrants who have come from various European in which the dominant culture is European, his cultural one outcome. Consider these figures keeping in mind what countries and from U.S.A. over the years .. . I believe that background should be the same as Europeans. If he has is known of the effects of recent Maori migration to urban such migrants w ill be able to make an even more substantial become naturalised then the authorities in that country centres:- contribution to the cultural and social life of our country." must consider him to have successfully “ assimilated” to their way o f life —and if he were white our immigration First admissions to Psychiatric Hospitals authorities would consider this almost irrefutable proof of Rate per 100,000 of Population GENERAL RESTRICTIONS OF ENTRY BY his acceptability as an immigrant. In most cases Year Maori European RACE AND NATIONAL ORIGINS non-Europeans will be the descendants of people who have 1959 86.4 117.0 Restrictions of varying degrees o f stringency are placed on lived in that country for generations, and will be more 1964 118.4 153.5 intending immigrants, dent ostensibly on their national likely to be in the cultural mainstream of their country 1969 190.1 179.6 origins but in practice more so on their race. These restrictions are than are Europeans. For instance American negroes are (from Race Relations 1972 Conference applied to different extents for the follow ing reasons according to more likely to be American socially and culturally than Report, p.6) official statements:- Polish-Americans. Similar figures could also be given for Criminal Offences. 1. Most stringent limits on those areas where there is “a 2. One o f the clearest examples o f the inconsistency and 5. (a) The myth of harmonious N.Z. race relations. It is mythical tremendous demand for emigration” , in order to prevent hypocrisy of this policy is its application to South Africa. to believe that to the extent that N.Z. does have inflation, unemployment, and excessive demands on social The policy places fewer restrictions on entry of South harmonious race relations, these are the product o f wise services. African whites, including Afrikaaners than on Coloureds. Government policies—and that therefore status quo policies 2. The experience that New Zealand and other countries of South African Coloureds have a culture derived entirely are the best ones. The policy believes that present policies migration have had of how well or poorly certain racial from the British, have English as their first language and usually believe in racial equality whereas Afrikaaners have a because these islands suffer from a lack o f resources and 4. The non-European immigrant communities should be culture quite different from the Pakeha or Maori, have over-population and because their inhabitants are mobilised to lobby fo r changes in general policy and to English as their second language and usually believe part-Polynesian in origin and New Zealand accepts a special work for this in full co-operation with the Race REIations non-white people are inferior. If our immigration policy did responsibility for Polynesians and believes they are more Council; The effective methods of Dutch and other not involve racial prejudice Coloureds would not be treated assimilable than other non-Europeans, the Government has European Immigrant organisations should be studied and more restrictively than whites yet the case of Basil Bowes, a sponsored a team of anthropologists and economists to where applicable applied by Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, cobbler, who was provisionally ad to New Zealand in recommend what responsibilities with regard to Chinese, and Indian communities as well. 1970 until it was found he was coloured, is among many immigration and other policies New Zealand should 5. Those responsible for formulating immigration policies that prove otherwise. undertake for these people. should be asked to define what criteria they apply in Potential immigrants from South Africa must first be 6. T onga. deciding whether an individual or ethnic group has cleared by the South African Security police on whose Although Tonga is clearly a part of Polynesia geographically successfuly assimilated and in what ways certain groups fail reports on individuals our security service apparently fully and ethnically, New Zealand places restrictions on entry to assimilate. Research could then be done to determine relies. Our immigration authorities should have nothing to from Tonga virtually as stringent as those for Fiji. how closely non-European and European groups in fact fit do w ith the security services o f regimes whose ideals are Unemployment over-population, and lack of resources have the picture the immigration authorities draw of them for contrary to those of New Zealand and so should use other produced a substantial desire for migration to New Zealand example how many recent European migrants have channels as we do with Communist countries to find out and this, as usual, appears to be the main reason why so few attitudes o f racial intolerances, and how valid and about potential immigrants from countries such as Portugal, Tongans are allowed to enter. However, no research has significant these criteria are. South Africa and Greece. been undertaken to help determine an appropriate policy. 6. The misleading information provided prospective European There is an arbitrary and relatively unexplained ranking of It is stated that the entry of unskilled migrants would be at immigrants about race relations and multi-racialism in New similated” to our countries o f origin and races as sources o f immigrants. the expense o f Samoans fo r whom New Zealand has an Zealand should be examined and exposed. repared to accept There seems to be two criteria involved:- added responsibility as the ex-colonial power and who are (a) How relatively alien the culture involved is. more assimilable, and that Tonga needs to retain all its ritage differs from However, no definition, anthropological or otherwise people for its own development. In spite of repeated is given as to what are undesirable or too divergent representations for freer entry to New Zealand the Tongan an be summarised cultural characteristics. Government has only been able to get some lessening o f (b) How many people from the country of race involved restrictions for part-Europeans deprived of land rights in Cook Islands, the want to emigrate to New Zealand. Surprisingly this is Tonga and temporary entry fo r Tongans to work in by immigration considered to be a suspicious and undesirable schemes organised by private corporations in New Zealand. of transport limit characteristic and particularly severe restrictions are 7. F iji, Melanesia, Micronesia, Papua-New Guinea. ; in New Zealand, placed on such areas while large financial incentives Apart from the mainly agricultural schemes for which a, Northern and are offered to attract the people who show least Fijians can be granted four-month work permits, people inclination to come. from this area can only be considered if they are istrictions except 4. The stringent restrictions even on relatives of Fijians, “ fiance(e)s, husbands, wives and children o f New Zealand good health and Tongans, Asians and Africans who are New Zealand citizens residents” , or if “ there are special circumstances on or permanent resident—causes a great deal o f hardship and humanitarian or occupational grounds” or, of course, if Not specifically unhappiness for the families involved. The human misery they are Europeans. [uire guaranteed caused cannot be justified because we would hardly be in N.Z. and must ‘‘swamped” if a more generous policy toward close estions on their relatives was pursued. COMMENTS emic record, and 5. By historical accident many ethnic groups and countries of 1. The policy with respect to the South Pacific lacks clear the acid test as to origin have virtually no representatives in this country. The definitions and aims. There is a general feeling that we have present policy would perpetrate this because almost the a special responsibility to at least some groups in the region only Asians and Africans allowed to come to New Zealand but there has not been sustained research, policy-m aking, or are those w ith close relatives already here. New Zealand is detailed discussions w ith the Pacific Island leaders and good reasons therefore missing out entirely on direct exposure to the themselves to determine how this special responsibility : immigrant and cultural heritage of most of the ethnic groups of the could best me met. non-European world and they cannot contribute to 2. The only consistent thread in the policy is the racial enriching and diversifying our society. stereo-typing found throughout New Zealand’s immigration wn in their new 6. The application o f the policy means that fo r many desirable policy. i accept our laws and essential occupational skills New Zealand will admit 3. The lack o f clarity in policy with respect to all the Pacific e coming to New lower qualified people from Western Europe and North Island groups and the very restrictive lim its imposed on America, at the expense of better qualified people from many cause unnecessary bitterness among the leaders and Asia and AFrica. The resultant lowering of the standard of people o f these neighbouring countries. Most o fte n these usbands, wives, medical care, engineering construction, all types of islands suffer severe problems o f overpopulation, nd citizens are craftsmanship, educational instruction and so on is a under-employment and lack of resources and New Zealand few ‘‘for special consequence New Zealand cannot afford. has the means to greatly assist in overcoming this by a ome special skill 7. The policy excludes many non-Europeans from stable and suitable policy o f economic assistance and liberalised but tolerant multi-racial societies while admitting Europeans controlled immigration. Instead o f using easy from purely European societies or societies in which a reationalisations that lack any evidence to demonstrate is “ We consider recent influx of non-Europeans is a major factor in their their validity our immigration policy with respect to the from fiance(e)s, desire to emigrate. No restrictions are placed on the influx South Pacific should be based on achieving mutually RESOLUTION F New Zealand of prejudiced Europeans who will do more harm than good acceptable agreements with all the Pacific Island here are special for our multi-racial society, while for instance, virtually Governments that w ill best assist their social and economic Resolution on Immigration Policy passed at the 1972 or occupational America, at the expense of better qualified people from development. Asia and Africa. The 4. The turnaround policy, that affects Samoa in p articular has Annual Conference o f the New Zealand Race Europeans from The South Pacific no legitimate justification and should be ended. Pacific REIations Council The South Pacific Islanders should not have their meagre financial resources New Zealand’s policy with respect to the various island groups can stretched to pay fo r three air fares to and fro m New We consider that New Zealand’s immigration policy includes Limited almost be summarised as follows, in order o f increasing restriction. Zealand but should be able to apply for a residence permit invalid and racially discriminatory criteria. The Government seems nmarried infant 1. The Tokelau Islands. without having to return to their home country. THis will to believe that it should endeavour to maintain social homogeneity . and to wives, in New Zealand by erecting barriers against the entry of As a New Zealand territory there is freedom of entry. assist New Zealand employers as well. sitizens” . A few non-Europeans much more restrictive than those applying to Financial and other assistance is provided for immigration 5. Our policy with respect to Tonga is particularly damaging. ip ” are admitted Europeans because it considers that non-Europeans w ill not to New Zealand because o f overcrowding and lack of There is no evidence at all that Tongaris have any particular d if they “ bring assimilate to our way of life as readily as Eureopans. resources on the islands. difficulty a to New Zealand conditions but there is se all must travel This view is invalid because New Zealand has not been socially and 2. Niue and the Cook Islands. conclusive evidence that Tonga is facing massive social and that country's culturally homogeneous since the European culture was brought Also have freedom of entry. However, no financial economic problems that freer entry of Toingans could help here to coexist with the Maori, and for this reason among many assistance is provided and consequently the cost and alleviate. Tongans working in New Zealamd would reduce cified. General we reject the racially based test o f assimilability. We recognise that availability of transport provide some effective limitations. the high level o f unemployment in Tongaa and contribute t be guaranteed New Zealand is culturally, socially and racially diverse, believe that n New Zealand 3. Samoa. much needed capital for that country. FPerhaps a quota this diversity is valuable and enriching for all our citizens and that :ople from their Samoans can apply to come to New Zealand either on a system similar to that applying to Samoaa and about as our immigration policy should recognise and develop this 3-month permit, which cannot be renewed without generous would be the fairest policy in kkeeping with our diversity. WE accept that the Government should limit returning to Samoa, or on a 6-month permit which can be resources. immigration to this country but at present non-European people renewed and lead to permanent residence. 3-month permits 6. The restrictions on non-Polynesian countries and territories stringency of who could contribute a great deal to building our multi-cultural are relatively easy to obtain but for 6-month permits there appear far too stringent when we have i the resources to ational origin, it society are being excluded while the Immigration authorities are is a quota o f 1500 per year and applicants are required to assist their development more generously annd cannot afford they are in fact subsidising white people to come here. Many o f whom are doing have, as a m inimum , guaranteed employment in New to alienate their leaders and people. Non-Europeans Zealand. There are no generally recognised criteria apart so to escape from non-Europeans in their own countries and have mission to New from this as to who obtains 6-month-permits, individual Avenues for Further Action attitudes that make many unprepared fo r and o f no value to a ens. cases being decided at lower levels o f the Immigration 1. The main task is to destroy the myths andd misconceptions multi-racial society. "alien cultures" Division. It is, however, unusual to obtain entry on this on which the policy seems to be based. Thhis w ould be part We therefore believe that in general ethnic and national origins basis w ithout previously having been to New Zealand of a program of publicity and public ecducation against should have no bearing on whether a potential ^imm igrant is up in a country because it is d iffic u lt to secure employment otherwise, and racially prejudiced and- racist attitudes gennerally, and that admitted to this country. If there is to be a subsidised immigration :an, his cultural because those who have been to New Zealand have priority. actively promoted the benefits of cultural I diversity in our scheme it too should not be restricted on racial grounds. leans. If he has Samoan Europeans can enter New Zealand w ith o u t needing society. It should be directed particularly at the most We do however, consider that New Zealand has a special n that country a special perm it, while half-caste Samoans are given priority influential people in forming immigration policy—civil responsibility to aid the development of all the people of-the ‘assimilated” to for 6-month permits because they are believed to assimilate servants in the immigration division, Tfhe Government, South Pacific region. THis will entail discussions with the Pacific iur immigration readily. • - M.P’s, leaders o f immigrant communitiess, the churches, Islands Governments to draw up immigration agreements that will utable proof of 4. Tahiti and other Polynesian Islands. employers and trade unions. allow somewhat freer access on a mutually acceptable basis from n most cases Intending immigrants from the Polynesian triangle are given 2. Every opportunity must be taken to i try to get the Polynesian countries suffering from unemployment and lack of people who have priority fo r entry. This has been outlined most recently in Immigration authorities to define their poMicies and criteria resources. In particular people from Samoa should be able to gain i w ill be more the 1969 Maori and Island Affairs Act. The number more precisely. This can only serve to higghlight the racial permanent residence w ith o u t having to first return to Samoa. f their country wanting to come is not very great but basically their discrimination and racism involved, becaiuse they try to Entry from Tonga where there are particularly severe economic an negroes are likelihood to be admitted and the attributes required are hide the fact that such criteria are aapplied and by and social problems, must be liberalised, and the Government culturally than much the same as for Samoa, except no maximum quota publicising these the policy can be attacked more must forcefully insist that the Australian authorities cease their level is applied. effectively in the news media. discrimination against non-European, non-Maori, New Zealanders consistency and 5. Gilbert and Ellice Islands. 3. Individual cases of injustice should be highlighted and going to that country. :o South Africa, A t the moment for the purpose o f immigration these publicised where the individuals involved are agreeable, in entry of South islands are treated as part o f Melanesia and entry is very order to embarass immigration authorities and h o p e fu lly to i on Coloureds, much limited, almost as much as from Fiji. However, secure m odifications o f immigration policy. Richard Northey Brian Lythe derived entirely st language and 5 * Now for the first time, my heart has come near to your thoughts . . . there is my land . . . you must take care o f i t ; . . . TE TIRITI-O-WAITANGI I do not wish you to sell it. The chief Te Taonui at the signing of the Treaty in February 1840 at Hokianga.

It was with "extreme reluctance” that the British government changed its policy towards New Zealand from one of inaction to one o f intervention in 1838. This decision was forced upon the government in an attempt to reconcile the fact that the settlement of the country by British migrants had begun and would continue with the belief, expressed by a special Committee o f the House of Commons in 1836, that uncontrolled colonisation would probably result in the extermination of the Maori. The settlement of New Zealand could not be halted, but the interposition of law, particularly over the difficult question of land, might prevent the worst excesses o f racial conflict. The policy was far from being a mere "m issionary” scheme, aimed solely at protecting the Maori, as many colonists believed and as have some historians: it accepted the reality of the occupation of New Zealand by British settlers and, in fact, assumed, erroneously, that to “ the natives . . . much of the land o f the country is o f no actual use, and in their hands it possesses scarcely any exchangeable value.” But the humanitarians in the Colonial Office did recognize that the Maoris had rights to land and to the protection of law to prevent "the same process of war and spoliation under which uncivilised tribes have almost invariably disappeared.” The Secretary of State for Colonies, in his Instructions to the future Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, William Hobson, in August 1839, made it clear that although the policy towards New Zealand had been changed and the government had been compelled to act, intervention was itself still "essentially unjust, and but too certainly fraught with calamity to R« a numerous and inoffensive people, whose title to the soil and to the sovereignty of New Zealand is indisputable, and has been solemnly recognised by the British Government.” The Treaty of Waitangi was the product of humanitarian thought, which tried to P« reconcile the actuality of colonisation with the preservation of the Maori race and some o f their land. In this way, it was an honest (although impotent) experiment in practical idealism, to end the Address existing "lawless state of society” , to induce the Maoris to accept Maori C the principles o f British law and to mitigate the effects of land conflict. The Treaty o f Waitangi was devised as a means o f transferring I havt sovereignty by the consent of the Maori chiefs. The government John Cc sought consent because occupation by force was not only symptom obviously impractical but would be inconsistent with their reasons like a U. for intervention. The Tready of Waitangi, drawn up in Maori, was our polit signed in itia lly on 6 February 1840 by 43 northern chiefs. By 15 time? Fc October I 840 over 500 signatures had been collected on various military signed sheets ( including, an English version which differs in who the: substance from the Maori text). On this date Hobson sent certified come imi copies in both languages to England. In actuality, however, New are the Zealand was annexed by proclamation on 21 May 1840. Hobson conclave: proclaimed British sovereignty over the whole: the North Island letter wr on the grounds o f cession under the Treaty and the South Island defense [ and Stewart Island on the specious grounds of discovery — in South E actuality seized by Hobson for the British Government. The Vietnam reason for these sudden proclamations was the behaviour o f the Looked New Zealand Company settlers at Port Nicholson, who denied the easte Hobson’s authority, together with the advent of a French countries colonising company at Akaroa. out-of-d* The Treaty of Waitangi, therefore, probably possesses no force discredit in international law and has never been embodied in New Zealand Korean c law. New Zealand was annexed by the proclamations. The Nixon’s disputed validity of the Treaty in international law is based on the of Defer legalistic grounds as to whether the Maoris possessed the involvem sovereignty and, therefore, could not concede what they did not the pad> have. Certainly the British government had form ally recognised Canterbi that sovereignty (largely because they did not wish to become all the si involved) and in 1832 had appointed James Busby as a British is ill-defi Resident in a “ substantive and independent state” . Far more supposec im portant, however, are the intentions o f the Treaty and the paddy f guarantees that were given to the Maoris in 1840. diplomat The Secretary of State for Colonies, the Marquess of Commur Normanby, stressed in his Instructions to Hobson that the “ weeps” intentions of the government must be fully explained to the South V Maoris, to persuade them from their “ distrust [of] a proposal for, if th which may carry on the face of it the appearance of humiliation not occu on their side and o f a form idable encroachment on ours.” From of patrio the discussion it appears that most Maori chiefs grasped clearly the So I issues involved: their land and their independence. The Treaty was policy, ; not signed w ith o u t opposition. Rewa o f Kerikeri, who signed the makers, Treaty on 6 February, at first spoke strongly against it: “ Send the Australia the lands that the Europeans could conceive as being valuable to to prevent gross exploitation o f the Maoris and race war over land. man away; do not sign the paper; if you do you will be reduced to Wher< the Maoris would be preserved. Similarly, the guarantee of the That it failed is not to invalidate the intentions. The inadequacies the condition of slaves, and be obliged to break stones fo r the Americai protection of British law and the full rights as British subjects of humanitarianism stemmed from an inability to understand that roads. Your land will be taken from you; and your dignity as South A denied the concept of separate identity and of preservation of the Maoris sought a guarantee o f their separate identity. In the end chiefs will be destroyed.” Nene of Hokianga, however, turned the emerging customs, of which Nene spoke and which "full chieftainship” over the humanitarians themselves would endorse a colonial policy of tide: he argued that it was now too late to drive the English away. on the A the lands implied. Only those practices which were “ compatible force to assimilate the Maoris and to wrest land from them. But To Hobson he said “ You must be our father! You must not allow freedom with the universal maxims of humanity and morals” would be the Treaty maintains its importance because it was an attempt to us to become slaves! You must preserve our customs, and never interests defended — that is, those in accordance with the rigid mores of found a colony on a new basis: one that recognised that the permit our lands to be wrested from us!” Vietnam Victorian England. Queen Wikitoria’s protection had its fount in indigenous people possessed rights. It is for this reason that the But the British had never intended to preserve intact the Maori protest i Anglo-Saxon righteousness. Maoris have continually appealed to the principles o f Waitangi and military race or their customs. Humanitarianism was paternalistic. Its But the harshness w ithin paternalist humanitarianism should demand that, at least, Waitangi Day should become a national indicatio objective was the assimilation of the Maoris into a European way not be used to deny the importance of the Treaty of Waitangi. The holiday: a compact of a bi-culturai society. It would certainly be toward of life, to bring them, as Normanby wrote, “ within the pale of guarantee o f some land was to be, in actuality, the rqeans o f the of far greater significance, rather than celebrating the tenuous Nixon a civilised life .” Nevertheless, the humanitarians had recognised one separation and thereby the survival o f the Maori in the late survival o f archaic provincial entities, to record a serious attempt Vorster’: important principle: the basis of the survival of the Maoris was nineteenth century. The humanitarian principles embodied in the to prevent racial conflict in New Zealand. Governn their retention of control over their lands. The Treaty signed at Treaty were to provide the basis of a colonial policy which aimed JUDITH BINNEY strengthc Waitangi guaranteed possession, or rather “ fu ll chieftainship” (te) relaxatio tino Ranqutirutunga) o f the lands, villages and valued possessions embargo of the Maoris. The English text, signed only at Waikato on 11 and EXERCISE reversed 26 A pril 1840, also included “ Forests” and “ Fisheries” in these YOUR LEGAL RIGHT COACHING House ai guarantees. The Crown alone had the right o f purchase o f land South A from the Maoris. This preemptive right was intended to serve two with th« purposes — characteristically contradictory. The first was the more op attempt to impose the Crown as an arbiter between the settlers’ Register as a Conscientious Objector We have a team of experienced tutors greed for land and the Maoris’ wish to protect their land. The For information write or phone available to help you with exam problems, all second was to provide a source of revenue for the new government subjects. O b from the Crown’s resale of Maori Lands to Europeans. Embodied Christian Pacifist Society, or Society of Friends hoi in the Crown’s concept of its role as purchaser was the belief, 12 Frost Road, 18 Ely Avenue, Telephone 73-280 expressed clearly in Hobson’s instructions, that most Maori land Spe Auckland 4. Auckland 5. DOMINION TEACHING ASSOCIATES LIMITED was “ waste land” , which could be purchased cheaply and resold at PHC a higher price, because its “ exchangeable value” had been created 695-541 545-109 (198 Queen St, next to Cornishes) solely by the introduction of settlers and capital from England. In the guarantee of land, therefore, was an unwritten ambiguity: only L ______- KATH WALKER ABORIGINAL RIGHTS

. . i ’m for humankind, not colour jibs; I ’m international, and never m ind tribes. "... I ’m international, never m ind place; I ’m for humanity, all one race.

Her message of love and brotherhood contrasts sharply with the words of the member for Geraldton (Western Australia) who said in 1892: “ It will be a happy day for Western Australia and Australia at large when the natives and kangaroos disappear. . . in dealing with this matter all maudlin sentiment should be abolished. The time has comec for drastic, exact and positive measures, administered not with a light hand.”2

In those days the number of Aborigines dropped from 300,000 approx, before the arrival of Cook, ti 80,000. The white settler felt confident that in 50 years time the natives of Australia would have disappeared from the face o f the earth. He had already succeeded in Tasmania, where a native woman, the last o f a race, had died in 1876. Some humanitarians decided to make their departure more pleasant confining several tribes in reservations where boredom Racism and New Zealands Political Alliances

Address by Dr P.W. Hohepa, Chairman Auckland District Maori Council. In fact there have been discussions in N .A.T.O . o f the possibilities and consequences of adm itting South A frica to that I have just returned from Wellington and saw N ixon’s aide, organisation. The consequences are too delicate, and the trial John Connally going in to see the Cabinet. His arrival is balloon has therefore been flown (or is “ leaked” a better word)? symptomatic of the way our country is becoming more and more of a possible complementary South Atlantic Treaty Organisation like a U.S. colony or vassal state. Concerning my subject matter — where South Africa may be more acceptable. Events have shown our political alliances — who are our political allies at this present that the “ white” Portuguese and South African response to time? For political we should really use the term military, for a Western policies confirms a current “thaw” in relations. military pact is the ultimate sign of a political alliance. We know Government leaders and the press in both South A frica and who these are: Australia, U.S.A. and England are the ones that Portugal have praised the Nixon and Heath (British) come immediately to mind. They are the im portant ones, and they administrations for having a more sympathetic outlook towards are the traditional “ white” countries. To protect these white their regimes. Portuguese officials claim co n fid en tly that the conclaves, usually euphemistically described by politicans and U.S.A. now supports a continued Portuguese presence in Southern letter writers as ‘protecting our democratic way o f life ’ , forward Africa as a buffer zone between South Africa and independent defense positions are maintained — and this now includes most of Africa. When President Nixon outlined Southern African policy in South East Asia and the Philippines. South Korea and South his 1970 State o f the World message, Prime M inister Vorster Vietnam are nothing more than forward defensive positions. characterised the speech as “ realistic” and “ refreshing” . And why? Looked at in terms of present U.S. defensive strategies they are The Nixon statement reiterates American opposition to apartheid. the eastern colonies just as we are the southern-most one. These But more importantly, Nixon also warns that the U.S.A. can only countries are part of the forward defensive positions for the support “ peaceful efforts towards the solution of South African out-of-date so-called “ containment of communism” policy, the problems” . Compare that with his Vietnam stance. If there are no discredited “ domino theory” which came to the fore w ith the hidden racist reasons for the differences of treatment, I don’t Korean conflict. N.Z. foreign policy is so closely tied up now with know what being a racist is. Concerning the impracticality of the and interbreeding caused more destruction than the gun in the Nixon’s U.S. foreign policy that the best our successive Ministers Nixon statement: we know that the African majorities have tried early stages of colonization. This attitude is fare from uncommon of Defence can do is try and rationalise and defend U.S.—N.Z. every form of peaceful protest, to the extent that it is now ‘no even today. O nly recently some articles o f the Australian involvement overseas. For example “ we would rather fig h t them in longer legal’ to even protest. We have seen the effects of white constitution have been changed. Before, the Federal Government the paddy fields of South Vietnam than on the plains of liberal peaceful protests — even white protesters are being “ held” could legislate for all the ethnic groups in Australia with the Canterbury” is the current defence for our being in Vietnam. Of in S.A. It is difficult to understand how Nixon expects meaningful I exception o f the Aborigines. The clause regarding the Aborigines all the sick jokes th a t’s one o f the best — it is sick because ‘them ’ change to occur in the future by using the same m e th o d s that have has been deleted and now they can appeal to Canberra when State is ill-defined, yet sounds patriotic. The new-ism we are against is not worked fo r close on 400 years. Who would c re d it a leader o f a governments pass unfair and discriminatory bills. In May 1967, a supposed to be Communism and while we fight them on the country whose war of independence is an example of gaining referendum decided that Aborigines too should be included jn the paddy fields, our government attempts to create trade and freedom, from denying that avenue to any other g ro u p where all census as Australian citizens and have the vote. diplomatic ties with China — one of the supposed arch-villains of others have failed? For the African populations, contacts with R.M. and C.H. Berndt point out that “ .. . On the whole, the Communism. Here’s our new Minister of Foreign Affairs, who Whites have been a bitter experience. The increasing resentm ent of European settlers did not regard the Aborigines as being seriously “ weeps” because civilians have been napalmed by Americans and what they regard as Western contributions to and the benefits im portant in their scheme o f things. They had their own ideas o f South Vietnamese, and he blames that on the North Vietnamese, from the harsh conditions which they are experiencing is all they how human beings should behave, the kind o f life they should for, if the North Vietnamese had not attacked the bombing would can expect from now on. “ The potential strategic, economic and lead, and they judged other human socieites in the light o f these not occur. The lack o f logical thinking, the attem pt to fan flames political threats to American ‘national interests’ posed by African standards. In fact, the Aborigines seemed to them so different that of patriotism and abandon reason is deplorable. nationalism, suggest that the U.S.A. might intervene in Southern many considered them scarcely human.” s,3 The present policy o f So I say, we are the puppets of present day American foreign ./ Africa during the 1970’s. The West,” says a commentator, assimilation reflects such attitudes. They have to become like us, policy, and while our leaders seem to believe they are decision “ genuinely dislikes the policies of the current Government there they have to accept our culture, our religion, our standards, and makers, the decisions are usually made fo r them. If the U.S. or but the alternatives under African nationalist rule could be far reject theirs. The Aborigines cannot and do not want to loose their Australia were to abandon Vietnam tomorrow, we will too. more damaging to Western commercial interests .” O f course this is identity in favour of a way of life which has proved to be far too Where does South Africa come into this? I w ill read what an the key point to the whole stance. It has nothing to do with South American correspondent is saying about what is happening to (continued on next page) Africa’s people, it conflicts with the avowed abhorrence of racism, South Africans, and our policy there may well depend on the yet it is clearly because commercial interests maiy well be affected. emerging Nixon doctrine: “ South Africa has become a giant power alliance, to me this is a danger fo r N.Z. and fo r everyone else. I’ve Unfortunately such commercial interests and p ro fits depend on on the African continent and the principal bulwark against African pointed this out twice already in the press. The Prime Minister has the perpetuation of the refined system of sla.very of apartheid. freedom everywhere in Southern Africa. Western capitalist retorted that there is no such alliance planned and lately Sir Keith “Such intervention might take the form of a massive military interests in South Africa are far greater than ever they were in Holyoake in a letter, stated quite plainly “ that no proposals for commitment to crush the guerilla movements, b u t only at the risk Vietnam. The posture of the U.S.A. is the following: Verbal any m ilitary association between N.Z. and South Africa have ever of enormous racial tensions within the Military”’. And if by chance protest against apartheid, but powerful arguments for the strategic been made or considered by the Government.” A ll I can say is, we this happend and we are dragged in there w ill Ibe tensions also in military and economic importance of South Africa. There are have seen this country taken into conflict first and then told, and ! the N.Z. military, for the majority of our troops are Polynesian. indications that American foreign policy is moving still closer ask — w ill we be kept fu lly informed o f any pressures to join in an “ Intervention could also take a political form. The U.S.A. might toward the White m inority regimes o f South Africa, under the Indian Ocean defence pact. A newspaper, The Star, on 11th choose not to reinforce White m inority rule w h ile s till working to Nixon administration. The White House has warmly endorsed Mr March, 197T, stated “ Britain’s naval facilities at Simonstown could prevent nationalist movements from coming to power.” Instead it Vorster's “outward policy” , even though the South African well be included in the plan now being seriously considered by may try to find a third party of moderates, and I think there are Government has made clear its belief that this policy will Australia, U.S.A., Britain and N.Z. for a four-nation naval fleet in very few moderates left in South Africa.. A more likely strengthen not undermine, apartheid. There have been several the Indian Ocean. Such a fleet, designed to counter a growing intervention would be similar to the precedent established by the relaxations recently in the U.S.A. in their adherence to the arms Soviet influence in the area, was first discussed between London, Sharpeville crisis of 1960-61. American financial transfusions embargo. The U.S.A. remained silent in 1970 when Britain Canberra and Washington early last year. Later the N.Z. saved the S.A. regime when it appeared in danger , o f collapse. reversed its own policy on exporting arms to South Africa. White Government also said it was willing to support a permanent allied There were tremendous American investments, trade and strategic House aides are said to be re-evaluating the strategic importance of naval force in the Indian Ocean.” I have to be cautious here, help given to South Africa. Whatever the future may bring, South Africa to the American presence in the Indian Ocean, along because no pact is signified. However, the dividing line between ‘a American policy today continues to be essentially one of with the political consequences of acknowledging South Africa military pact’ (which is denied) and ‘an agreement to allow the anti-apartheid rhetoric while maintaining normal relations with the more openly.” Indian Ocean naval fleet to use the Simonstown naval base’ is the regimes o f South Africa. These are the alternatives facing the ooint at issue. Such an agreement w ill have to involve South United States. 4frica. Obtain your T /D licence for the Christmas Where does that leave us in New Zealand? As I say, we are at But regardless o f interpretation there is the growing awareness holiday. present the puppets of present American foreign policy. Will we be that New Zealand’s m ilitary-political alliances are in danger of used as pawns for Nixon’s next adventure after Vietnam? The being confined to a narrow ‘whites only’ circle, whose territories Special student rates $6.50 per hour. Americans may well go in ‘to defend’ the Indian Ocean, or to remain inviolate yet these white nations are obviously willing to PHONE:Heavy Transport Driving School protect ‘a bastion of democracy’. When they start having meetings condone and participate in blood-letting and destruction in 83-393 of N.A.T.O. and start thinking in terms of bringing South Africa countries which are non-white. The ‘paddy-fields’ statement cuts into that orbit, but feeling that it is not good for current American close to the bone. 592-466 interest to be too closely allied, and therefore try to form another - ...... = ’■...... 7 Some of you here are what might be considered swamped I great faith LOCALISED RACISM Liberals and some of you consider yourselves Radicals. which are i - TAKE IT SLOW BROTHER! The Liberals and Radicals would like to see changes. The whites, m< Revolutionaries would love to see changes. It’s up to you "Abschool to decide whether you’d like it or love it, or you can just ! fund). She lump it and become a hippycrit. I in the strug Increasi Mild Racism or should I call it ignorance exists even requiremen amongst the so-called Radical groups. We’ve had these the implenr so-called Radicals even try to use our Polynesian Panther j self-determ Movement as bum-boys. Let me make it quite clear to all I they can b I more than those who have tried to ‘suck us in’ that we do things our 1 whites teai way - not your way. If you want to help yourselves, help foreign in t yourselves by helping us — but don’t waste our time. the rubbisi We’re not a ‘gang’ of Polynesians who get together for employmer kicks or just for your benefit. We will seize our own time! booklet pc Service: “ C I hope you can dig that now! other rural Most white people don’t understand Polynesian values. in non-rura When the Polynesian does something the white man as skilled w considers strange, the whites discredit the Polynesian. This semi-profes is a multi-racial situation and yet society has one set of But Kat more and r standards that it sets for all. Anything outside these engaged in standards is abnormal. Institutional racism here in N.Z. museum to has caused this lack of understanding between the white peop different peoples and will continue to do so until a change summarizec “... if a is brought about by you the people. 1. It h; If we keep developing in the direction we are taking, with who knows — this coulcj^quite possibly bevome another 2. If it South Africa instead of the polite-racist country we have, o f su now. perrr pote We can say ‘don’t look at each other as different 3. It is peoples we are all one. That’s fine, if we look at it that disea way, but it’s hard to overlook some things. It’s hard to gastc overlook the past injustices, and the question arises — 4. If it lacki “ under who’s system shall we live harmoniously.” The train present is the same total of the past. The future is ours. of black people in South Africa should have a voice in 5. If il We will have to mould the future. We must take the irresj determining their future. initiative to “ Seize the Time” while we still can! breal All the activities of the whiteman make me think In the States for 400 years the Afro-Americans have main ‘what an arrogant fool he is’ Technology and materialistic. it liv been singing the song “ We Shall Overcome” . Well they Things are nothing! People, are everything! Until the by I haven’t overcome and we don’t intend singing along with comf A talk given by Wayne Toleafou-Peseta Polynesians, and other oppressed peoples of the world are them. 6. If it Minister of Information of the Polynesian Panther truly considered equals, there is no use talking as if we are Each day more Polynesians children are being born. an ag Movement. equals. adula They are born into subjection to this white racist society. babie They are brought through the school system and taught to the d It’s amazing how many white people in N.Z. be ‘good’ Islanders or good ‘Maoris.’ (continued from over page) 7. And KATH WALKER The mov still think that all of us here are living The European has been here for about 200 years nôw and I still can’t see any effective Maori voice in the often delusive and destructive. What they are fighting fo r is clearly harmoniously together. Maybe we are? If we are running of this country. They let Samoa go because the stated in one o f Mrs Walker’s poems: Aboriginal Charter o f Rights, which was prepared and presented to the 5th Annual General — I don’t like the tune we’re harmonizing to. laughter. 1 steamship was out of date and they didn’t need any Meeting of the Federal Council Aboriginal Advancement, held at coaling stations. The resources in Samoa weren’t paying Adelaide, Easter, 1962. gone fro m White people seem to think there is nothing peculiar off either. N.Z. has the resources so the European stays. The bora r about the 70 to 80% Polynesian roll at Paremoremo Rock We want hope, not racialism, His materialistic values come to the fore always. Brotherhood, not ostracism, The c o rro t University. They seem to think that, there is nothing In the Ponsonby area many Polynesian children must Black advance, not white ascendance: And we art peculiar about the fact that 80% of Polynesian drop out play on the streets because the Council does not provide Make us equals, not dependents. of the school system before they reach the 6th form. suitable play areas. In Grey Lynn a motorway was built We need help, not exploitation, We want freedom, not frustration, 1. K. Walk It’s O.K. to crack ‘hor’ or ‘coconut’ jokes but it’s through a shcool playground, this meant that the children racism to crack ‘white-maggot’ jokes or ‘white-honky’ Not control but self-reliance, Brisbane practised rugby on the concrete. Schools in the Ponsonby Independence, not compliance, 2. R.M. am jokes. area are becoming so crowded that prefabricated buildings Not rebuff, but education, 431, Ure When the whiteys start talking to me about are being built in the middle of the already-limited playing Self-respect, not resignation. 3. R.M. an, Free us froma mean subjection, brotherhood, I somehow feel they want me to be the little areas. The schools in Ponsonby are classed by the p.430, U brother and them to be the big brothers — I wonder why I From a bureaucrat Protection. 4. and 5. Q Education board as ‘country schools’. L et’s forget the oid-time slavers: feel this? Aucklanr New secondary school zones have recently been drawn Give us fellowship, not favours; 6. K. Walk. I’ve read in the history books of how my ‘savage’, up. I suppose we are all meant to think it coincidental Encouragement, not prohibitions, Brisbane, ‘uncivilised’, anscestors ‘sinned’ against whitey by resisting that the people of Ponsonby can no longer go to the Homes, not settlements and missions. We need love, not overlordship, him when he wanted the land. Now the whiteys are grammar schools but must go to where there are a very preaching non-violence because some of us want the land Grip o f hand, not whip-hand wardship; few academic successes. Opportunity that places "HIS RIO back. By the way, don’t let the history books fool you — I suppose we are meant to think it is just co-incidence White and black on equal basis. the War’s not over — believe it or believe it! that in a certain Grammar school many Polynesians are You dishearten, not defend us, /PNG Circumscribe, who should befriend us. Some of you don’t like being called whiteys, well taking an Agricultural course. you’re not used to hearing your own jive from the other Give us welcome, not aversion, m r o One thing I am sure of is that most of those Give us choice, not cold coercion, - side. That’s because you’re arrogant. Polynesians don’t want to be farmers. The class these guys Status, not discrimination, GffiOOLOi Some of you will say “ oh! I’ve got some good friends are in has been given the pathetic name of 3 Sci. There is Human rights, not segregation. that are Polynesians — they’re wonderful people” . Well no 5 Sci because none of them reach that level. You the law, tike Roman Pontius, Make us proud, not colour-conscious; that’s sweet! because I’ve got some white ones but it don’t When these boys leave school they cannot be assured make you unguilty of racism. When you don’t resist the Give the deal you still deny us, of any future under the present system. So that’s why I Give goodwill, not bigot bias; legislation that causes the Polynesians or any minority to say be afraid of a gang when you meet it on the street, Give ambition, not prevention, be oppressed, you are in fact supporting this legislation. because they sure have got a reason to be angry. Confidence, not condescension; Give incentive, not restriction, If you support the school system as it stands, you are Don’t sit there feeling guilty either - they don’t like iFfOON'T supporting a racist institution, that arrogantly ades Give us Christ, not crucifixion. people who rationalize. The only school they want to Though baptized and blessed and Bibied assimilation of all our cultures into the white culture. You know is the school of action. It’s up to this society to We are still tabooed and libelled. m i N G l are supporting cultural genocide. If you do this you can change a-few things. Kath Walker’s life is an example o f how Aborigines are treated. be sure that as time goes by there will be a violent I am a N.Z. born Samoan but I don’t have the same Born in Stradbroke Island in 1920. A t the age o f 13 she left school backlash not from the P.P.M. only but from any rights as other so called N.Zers, take for instance to become a domestic in Brisbane. Three years later, Kath was Polynesian with a brain under his helmet! immigration. I cannot visit Australia on the claim that I rejected fo r nurse training, because she was an aborigine. She worked as a telephonist during World War II in the A.W.A.S. and You see gangs of Polynesians on the streets alread — am a New Zealander. The N.Z. Government’s not worried, well you’ve got every reason in the world to be scared of married. At the age of 37, under a repatriation scheme for service about that, it still goes on deceiving itself. men and women, she went back to school and became a them — until the school system and this social system is All 19yr old Samoans must register for military service stenographer. changed. in the N.Z. army. Why should we? The N.Z. Government She is now one o f the best-known poets in Australia. Her I M Y N l You’d better be more selective about who you choose popularity is based on the importance o f her social message which won’t fight my wars, why should I fight their wars? is expressed w ith all the energy and the faith o f a life entirely for your pig force too because at the moment those • • About 72% of the N.Z. forces in Viet Nam, were devoted to the cause of the aboriginal people. so-called policemen aren’t fit to handle thier own Polynesians. Well, no Vietnamese ever called me a coconut She was until recently the Queensland State Secretary of the grandmothers. They’re becoming a piece of dust in the or a nigger so why should I be asked to fight them? As far Federal Council o f the Aboriginal Advancement League, Honorary eye of this society. as I am concerned we the Polynesian peoples are brothers Secretary for the Queensland State Council for the Advancement o f Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and an executive Many of our brothers have been hassled on the streets in oppression to the Vietnamese people. It’s no concern of and taken down to central, to be beaten and are then member of the Union of Australian Women. Unfortunately these mine whether the Vietnamese have a Communist bodies are more concerned w ith window dressing than with the taken to the Courts to be told by a Magistrate what the Government or a democratic Government. At least they real interests o f the aboriginal people. The same can be said for the future holds for them. The Magistrates Court should really should be given power to determine their own future - Churches and the Trade Unions. The assimilation policy is still pursued: they must become like us. For this reason her son Denis be called the Crystal Ball Courts because that’s what they 'just as we the Polynesian people, should have a voice in are. and the other younger advocates of Aboriginal rights have decided determining the future of this nation — just as the masses to depend solely on themselves, to avoid the danger of being 8 swamped by the empty rituals of do-gooders. Kath Walker has ■' I ' xfc' „ great faith in the youth o f Australia, in the exchanges at all levels which are now taking place between young Aborigines and young BARAKAT AHMAD whites, mostly University students, and firm ly believes in the "Abschool” movement (the Aborigine education scholarship before the Special Committee, “ the most significant development fund). She also argues fo r a combined e ffo rt o f the Pacific People during the year as far as New Zealand’s relations with the United in the struggle fo r justice and equal rights. AGAINST RACIST SPORT Nations are concerned.” The Committee was attacked because the Increasingly her speeches emphasize that “ the key anti-apartheid delegates not only took the opportunity while in requirements today are the return o f land rights to the people, and New York to comment on apartheid and sporting tours with the implementing of legislation that will ensure independence and South Africa, but they also commented on “the domestic self-determination for the Aborigines of Australia” . At present situation in their own country and on the policies of their own they can be removed from their tribal territories. It has happened Government.” This commented the Foreign Affairs report, more than once when rich mineral deposits are discovered, and the :onstituted a new departure for a United Nations body, and was a whites tear the heart out o f Australia and sell its resources to jractice unlikely to be acceptabl many Governments. foreign interests. The dispossessed, now a vast m ajority, settle in GOVERNMENT DISOWNS HIM the rubbish dumps outside villages and towns, unable to find And the Government and its spokesmen have taken every employment because, as it appears in the follow ing extract from a opportunity to play down the significance of Dr Ahmad’s visit. On booklet published by the Department o f Labour and National 29 August, Mr Marshall is reported to have said that Dr Ahmad Service: “ O f the males, 33% were registered fo r farm , pastural or “ was to visit New Zealand as a private visitor and would be treated other rural work, and a further 60% were seeking unskilled work with the courtesies due to a person visiting New Zealand in that in non-rural industries. Less than 7% o f the males were registered capacity.” The Prime Minister did, however, leave open the as skilled workers. There were no males registered fo r professional, opportunity for Dr Ahmad to meet with officials of the Ministry semi-professional or clerical w o rk.” 4 of Foreign Affairs if there was any occasion for him to wish to see But Kath Walker has not lost her faith in man; she believes that them. Yet it needs to be made abundantly clear that Dr Ahmad is more and more people will join in the battle and she is presently at present visiting his country in his official capacity as engaged in developing in Stradbroke Island a cultural centre and £ Rapporteur of the United National Special Committee on museum to preserve the culture and history o f the Aborigine and Apartheid. The refusal to accord Dr Ahmad with an official white people who have lived there. Meanwhile the situation is reception in Wellington is a snub and an insult to not only the summarized in Dr Coombs’ report along these lines: Special Committee, but the world body as a whole, of which the “... if an aboriginal baby is born, Special Committee is an officially constituted organ. We as citizens 1. It has a much better than average chance o f being dead o f this country all share in the insult im p licit in this snub, for Mr w ithin two years; Farah’s letter of greeting to H.A.R.T. makes the official nature of Islim 2. If it does survive it has a much better than average chance Dr Ahm ad’s visit absolutely explicit. New Zealand can be sure of of suffering from substandard nutrition to a degree likely to much more critical attention from the Special Committee, because permanently handicap it (a) in its physical and mental of our government’s snub of Dr Ahmad. potential, (b) in its resistance to disease; CRITICISMS OF U.N. APARTHEID COMMITTEE 3. It is likely in its childhood to suffer from a wide range of Three major criticisms have been levelled at the Special diseases, but particularly E.N.T. and respiratory infections, Committee. These are that the Special Committee is 1.“A very gastoenteritis, trachoma and other eye infections; intolerant and unrepresentative international pressure group.” — 4. If it reaches the teen ages it is likely to be ignorant o f and Mr Gair, 1.5.72.; 2. Has no authority to by-pass the government lacking in sound hygienic habits, without vocational of a country and deal directly with a “ motley assortment of training, unemployed, maladjusted, and hostile to society; trouble stirrers” and protestors, small minority groups, which do 5. If it reaches adult ages it is likely to be lethargic, 3 a voice m not represent the opinion o f New Zealanders; and 3. Was irresponsible and above all, poverty-stricken, unable to attempting to dictate on to New Zealanders a policy which was break out of the iron cycle of poverty, ignorance, not only wrong, but was unworkable, and most of all, had failed. e me think malnutrition, ill health, social isolation, and antagonism: if naterialistic. it lives in the North it has a good chance of being maimed On the first criticism, Dr Ahmad was quite explicit. The by leprosy and, wherever, its search fo r affection and Special Committee can do nothing under its own authority. Every ! Until the action it makes, must be, and is, authorised by a resolution passed companionship may well end only in the misery of V.D.; by the fu ll plenary session o f the United Nations General ie world are 6. If it happens to be a girl she is likely to conceive a baby at Assembly. No matter what its composition, therefore, the Special as if we are an age when her white contemporary is screaming innocent Committee represents the will of the 1 30 or so member nations of adulation at some ‘ pop’ star, and she w ill continue to bear the United Nations Organization. In November 1971, last year, babies every twelve or eighteen months until she reaches some 108 nations, including New Zealand, with only South Africa the double figures or dies of exhaustion. Ever since three New Zealanders, Messers Tom in opposition and 5 nations including the United States and 7. And so the wheel will turn . . .” 5 Newnham of C.A.R.E. and Trevor Richards of H.A.R.T., /er page) Britain abstaining, voted in General Assembly Resolution 2775, The moving words of Kath Walker complete the picture: and Dr Pat Hohepa, Chairman of the Auckland District Part C, fo r the continuation o f the Special Com m ittee’s work ' fo r is clearly Maori Council, adressed the United Nations Special “ with appreciation.” ter o f Rights, ".. . The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the Committee on Apartheid, 21-23 March, in New York, and South Africa and the abstenting nations, Dr Ahmad point out, inual General laughter. The eage is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are according to one Government Minister, “ vilified their are not committed to the Committee’s work. But New Zealand is! ment, held at gone from this place. countrymen from afar” , the Special Committee has been a The New Zealand Government knew quite clearly the composition of the Special Committee when it voted for the continuation of The bora ring is gone. favourite target for right-wing National Party politicians the Committee’s work, and for its mandate to be renewed for The corroboree is gone. who wish to play up to the very strong pro-apartheid another year. And we are going. "6 gallery in the National party ranks. The Special Committee, itself, was formed in 1962 with 11 foundation members, after all efforts to gain co-operation from G. ANDRONI Last week, an official o f the Special Com m ittee, D r Barakat Ahmad, commenced a three week tour of New Zealand on the the South African Government with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights had failed. In 1970, the number of 1. K. Walker, We are going, p.35, Jacaranda Press Pty. Ltd., invitation of H.A.R.T. with the intention of answering these Brisbane, 1964. politically-motivated critics of an organ of the United Nations member nations that might serve on the Special Committee was 2. R.M. and C.H. Bernalt, The Wordl o f the First Australians, p. Organization. At a town hall concert chamber public meeting on increased to 18. Representation on the Committee is calculated on 431, Ure Sm ith, Sydney, 1968. the 6th, and a H.A.R.T. fund-raising dinner and on “ G a lle ry” the a regional basis and members are appointed only after due 3. R.M. and C.H. Bernalt, The World of the First Australians, next evening, Dr Ahmad cleared up the confusion and ignorance in consultation between the Chairman of the Special Committee and p.430, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1968. the minds o f friends and critics o f the Special C o m m itte e alike the region concerned. As Mr Gair so kindly enumerated, at the 4. and 5. Quoted by K. Walker in her sppech at the University of over its composition, mandate and powers. present time, the member nations are: Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, Auckland, 1972. Dr Ahmad was a last-minute substitute for the Chairman of the Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan from Africa; Guatemala, Haiti and 6. K. Walker, We are going, p.25, Joacaranda Press Pty. Ltd., Special Committee, the Somali Republic Ambassador to the Trinidad and Tobago from Latim America and the Caribbean; Brisbane, 1964. United Nations, Mr Abdulrahim Abby Farah, invited by H.A.R.T. India Malaysia, Nepal and Syria from Asia; and Hungary and the to visit New Zealand in March. Ukraine from the Communist bloc nations. As Mr Gair complains, NO HOTHEADED EXTREMIST “ No Western country or member of the old Commonwealth is Dr Ahman, a Moslem Indian, is a career d ip lo m a t w ith a represented on it.” This, Dr Ahmad insisted, was because these HIS RIOTING distinguished academic background which belies any attempt to very nations have been the most active partners w ith the South classify him as a “ hot-headed extremist who can be dismissed African regime, and the most consistent in refusing to co-operate NGIS w ithout too much trouble.” This is how the N ew 2iealand with the efforts of the Committee. Government would prefer to regard the Special C o m m itte e on If the Special Committee is “ unrepresentative” it is solely the 6 TO Apartheid. Between 1962 and 1965, Dr Ahmad was the First fault o f nations such as New Zealand. There are 2 vacancies on the Secretary of the Indian diplomatic mission to Canberra and was Committee and Dr Ahmad invited New Zealand to right the COLORED accredited to Wellington as well. However, he agreed that his deficiency and to join the Committee and offer its long experience knowledge o f New Zealand had been limited to a series o f very of comparitively harmonious race relations to the Committee’s brief visits to Wellington. Hopefully, he will return to New York work. flEWH/rr better appreciating the deep underlying sympathy o f very many CONNECTIONS WITH “ RABBLE ROUSERS” New Zealanders, Maori and Pakeha, for what is regarded as the Regarding the second major criticism , over the Committee’s predicament of the white South Africans, and the grow ing urgency associating with non-governmental bodies and “ rabble rousers” , Dr and frustration which emanates from the anti-apartheid movement Ahmad referred the attention of the New Zealand Government f “ , over the New Zealand Government’s double-talk on the question back to the resolution 2775 it gave backing to last November. of apartheid ties. Part C o f Resolution 2775 reads: IF/OONT It is clear that over the past year, the G overnm ent has been “ C.Programme o f the Work o f the Special Committee on acutely embarrassed by the increasing attentions th e United Apartheid. SIUING Nations has been paying to this country’s insistence on giving aid The General Assembly, and com fort to white South Africa in general, and a p a rth e id sports Noting w ith appreciation the work o f the Special i are treated, bodies. For instance, the annual report of the M inistry o f Foreign Committee on Apartheid in pursuance of General Assembly ie left school Affairs, in June called the appearance o f the anti-a p a rth e id leaders Continued on p.10 r, Kath was IM T C /y/ origine. She CW.A.S. and ie fo r service I became a ★ Thursday night 8 o'clock Bacchus- # # ★ Cafe :60c ustralia. Her I m NEVER LlCentCIOUS * Uncle Alberts Orgasmic Band etary of the ie, Honorary O rig in a l ★ Filthy Freds foreskin five .dvancement n executive ★ Blood transfusions nately these O rg a sm ic an with the avaliable to get blood into said for the olicy is still D ance your alcoholic stream er son Denis lave decided er o f being it is after-all, necessary to keep enough spaces in those BARAKAT AHMAD Continued , grey (very bloody grey) cells to remember all the necessary e=mc^ formulae, for passing exams is, surely, resolution 2671 (xxv) of 8 December 1970, more important than all else .. . isn’t it? Well, to all you Considering that further efforts should be made to fuck-wits out there, let me state clearly . . . MY intensify the international campaign against apartheid, Endorsing the programme o f work o f the Special PRIO RITIES ARE D IFFEREN T . . . and so you say ... Committee on Apartheid, within the budgetary provisions what is this all about? .. . well eventually I may tell you to be made for this purpose. .. . instead of my usual rave .. . but there are also some (a) To send representatives or delegations, as appropriate, people (you may even decide to call us less than human) to international conferences dealing with the problem of who agree with me .. . but baby ... I KNOW that I am apartheid; (b) To hold consultations with experts and representatives human . . . I can be beaten to a bloody pulp just as easily of the oppressed people of South Africa, as well as as the rest of you . .. and believe me, lying flat on ones anti-apartheid movements and non-governmental back for four hours on a Sat. night, staring at the bare organisations concerned with the campaign against white ceiling of a bare white cell . . . part of the new apartheid.* efficient dehumanizing institution where sick are cured * [emphasis in section (b) is mine] Clearly, Dr Ahmad has official mandate to visit New Zealand at . . . it doesn’t take long for one to realize how crapped out the invitation of H.A.R.T., just as the Special Committee had the system is. THEY (some people call them justifiably official mandate to consult with the New Zealand anti-apartheid the pigs) HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT PEOPLE EXIST. leaders in New York. Unlike the U.N. Commission on Human THEY can even be clever about it too . . . pumping one Rights, the Special Committee on Apartheid has a very wide-ranging mandate to approach any group it likes to further its full of pentothal (clever little plastic surgeons . . . I’ll look work against apartheid. And, said Dr Ahmad, “ We will go to the same as I ever did in another week (pity) .; . such anyone who is active in opposing apartheid, even pleasant dreams . .. with this stuff around who wants to ‘rabble-rousers’ ” . fight the system. THEY even let us smoke grass . . . and COMMITTEE WILL NOT DICTATE then I want to run out and commit violence, murder, and Regarding the third criticism, Dr Ahmad was most concerned to emphasise that the Special Committee, like the United Nations rape .. . well friends . . . sometimes Id o ... even in a drug itself, could not dictate policy to member nations. But he did induced euphoria . . . and sometimes we do need a glimpse point out that the New Zealand Government had voted for the of what could be . . . I don’t forget the ME . . . I know A continuation o f the work o f the Special Committee. It had voted that I am a person . . . and I’ll fight, and probably die so for the setting up of other campaigns against racism in Southern that I can be one . . . all the time . . . not just in my own Africa, such as the United Nations Trust Fund for Southern In thi little closet. Africa. And, in addion, in May 1971, the New Zealand to a hea representative in New York, Mr J.V. Scott, had been instructed to And this in part, was what the First National GAY aware ô support a resolution before the Economic and Social Council LIBERATION FRONT Conference was about. which had forthrightly declared apartheid to be “ a crime against wiped o This is the oppression that exists all around you ... humanity and a threat to international peace and security” , so present [ That YOU engender by keeping your eyes closed . .. why there could be “ no misunderstanding about our basic attitude.” Labour I Has New Zealand therefore, not a moral obligation to see its don’t you cut the braces which hold you in your pattern of voting in the United Nations logically through to its the coun burrowed ruts six foot under and fight to be a person too? We are conclusion of support for General Assembly action against South or are you so oppressed yourself that you think all is well entering Is Africa? In particular, the New Zealand Government has no right to in this capitalistic institutionalized organisation that has that they continue to torpedo the democratic decision of the overwhelming being une majority of nations of the world regar the breaking off of made you forget that you also ‘own’ this earth, that you these mig sports ties with apartheid sports bodies which violate the Olympic BEATEN FROM MY really are a person . . . not a number on another form ... about the Principle. Last 29 November, world opinion rejected any "bridge thafyou will, in less than 10 years time, be paying tax the their lives, building” with white South Africa by 106 votes to 2, and 7, DDAIM (Apologies to John L.) air you breathe . .. remember a long time ago, when some Since t including New Zealand, abstentions. M l l f t l l l or National Gay Liberation fuckwit came along and said “ I own this land. If you want ignominio On other points raised at his meetings, Dr Ahmad did point out accept the that it was too early yet to write off U.N. resolutions on apartheid it you have to buy it from ME . .. with MY money ...” If any of you learned (?) folk who support the devoid of as failures, or to say that isolation had failed. What was clear was And money was made, and every one did the work HE has admit that the efforts at communicating with South Africa begun by continuation of this system, and thereby read with said they should to get some of HIS money so that they migrants f Mahatma Gandhi at the turn of the century had failed — through regularity, and from cover to cover each issue of craccum, could buy some of HIS land so that they could call it There lack of a partner at the South African end. brought t LAW AND ORDER attend lectures with the view of attaining some sort of theirs . . . and just to have a bigger laugh HE made them increased On law and order, Dr Ahm ad’s comment was to the effect that academic qualifications, always good to have in case THE pay some of the money back . . . taxes HE called it... it’s had colou such so-called m inority groups as H.A.R.T. were the upholders of REVOLUTION does not occur, who, to further your a long time ago now . . . most ‘people’ can’t remember it. of disease the majority weill, and of the principle of law and order against a education gain vicarious knowledge of what oppression is What amazes me is . . . why didn’t any one stop to fight a communit government which refuses to honour its democratic obligations to all about, and march for anti-war, anti-apartheid, anti-test the counti a world decision and distorts its own principle of law. long long time ago? Or perhaps most of you deserve it. The set Regarding the terms of contact with South Africa which would etc. etc. REALLY want to KNOW what oppression is all Well . . . I DON’T .. and GAY LIB doesn’t . .. (Nor ramming find support from the Special Committee on Apartheid, in view of about, then there are several pathways by which you can the other Lib. groups) .. . thats why son® of us are document Dr Koornhof, the new South African Minister of Sport’s accumulate such knowledge. Other than painting fighting. So brothers and sisters, the time is here for you one point declaration against the possibility of any sort of mixed race Rugby yourselves yellow, or black, and after the necessary plastic to stand up . . . take your side . .. freedom or oppression trial to select the 1973 Springbok team, to Dr Ahmad, the enacts har surgery, flying direct to Vietnam or South Africa, you people ag question was purely hypothetical. He quoted from this statement . . to me there isn’t a decision to be made . .. Blue Mink: destroy all uttered by Mr Vorster to the South African.Parliament 11 April could perhaps look around on the home front. Shake your ‘The time is nearly here, count me in’ .. . and so in all fair 1967: head baby, open your eyes, don’t get lead astray with gentlemanly warning . . . if in the near future you see me I woub Wellingtor '7 therefore want to make it quite clear that from South universal sighs, .. . cosmic awareness may come to some throwing a bomb at you .. . it’s not a mistake . . . I meant belie’ Africa’s point o f view not mixed sport between whites and . . . but does it help you outside your front door? it. non-whites will be practised locally, ireespective of the 1. Coloun slum ai standard of proficiency o f the participants . . . our views straight? How many times baby, must you rationalize? . . . The first national GAY LIB conference also made me health. and our attitude are dear — no matter how proficient one must you draw upon all the crappy, still Victorian, still realise that not all of the liberationists in the country are 2. An inat o f our people may be in his line of sport, we do not apply depression, induced conditioning to believe that you are quite as angry as I am . . . so keep on hitting us brothers 3. Integra that as a criterion, because our policy has nothing to do at an honest, good, with-it, etc.etc. state, which with your ... keep up the oppression . . . all most of them want... overwh with proficiency or lack of proficiency. I f any person either crapped out conditioning you believe to be you? 4. We are locally or abroad, adopts the attitude that he will enter into with our newly arranged national liasion . . . is law reform Great E relations with us only if we are prepared to jettison the sortie of you may even have thought that a little and change of society’s attitudes. . . but I am angrier than 5. Interm. separate practising of sport prevailing among our own extra-mural activity could do no harm and even have seen most . . . perhaps it’s because I ’ve been fighting a long 6. We fine people in South Africa, then / want to make it quite dear me on network T.V. News (Sat. 26) or Gallery (Tues. 29), time and am getting tired . . . so hit us babies, keep up the 25 year that, no matter how important those sports relations are, in looking even more wiped out than usual. But should I oppression, make law change impossible, build up even my view, / am not misunderstanding whatsoever. / also AN ANSV\ want to say . .. that if. . . anybody should see in this either continue to clutter your brains, with irrelevant matter. .. more police harrassment, more “queer” bashings, a few (a) Human the thin edge of the wedge or a surrender o f principles, or more killings could do the trick . . . my right arm is (b) Develo| that it is a step in the direction from diverging from this getting itchy for those bombs . . . or perhaps there is basic principle, he would simply be mistaken. Because in (c) Slef-tra another way? done in respect, of this principle we are not prepared to compromise, we are not prepared to negotiate, and we are So I’ll leave you with part of a poem written to me by not prepared to make any concessions ..." Bikes for Beetles one of the men that I love; WHITE SPORTSMEN NOT INNOCENT . . . In this self do not seek self-hood but in yourself. On this policy, the South African Government has been I sing to you; there was a time when a man walked on perfectly consistent. And it is no good protesting the innocence of 72 Suzuki 90 trial bike ...... $ 3 9 0 his own, white South African sportsmen caught up in the sporting net their 71 Suzuki 90cc twin ...... $ 3 9 0 political masters have woven fo r them. Said Dr Ahmad, South there was a time .. . there was a time when a man 71 Yamaha 200, 5000 miles ...... $ 5 5 0 Africa may be a police state of South African blacks, but it walked all alone, 71 Yamaha 75cc scooter ...... $ 2 5 0 remains a parliamentary democracy for the whites who continue there was a time . . . there was a time when a man without fail to give overwhelming support to the policies of 72 Honda CB100, 2000 miles ...... $ 4 2 5 walked far from home, apartheid or the United opposition’s variations of them. Dr 71 Yamaha X51 650cc ...... $ 1 1 9 0 there was a time . . . there was a time. Craven’s recent conversion to “ mixed” trials remains to be tested Compare these prices around town in his voting in the next all-white parliamentary elections. And, a Maybe again there’ll be a time. EVERY BIKE A BARGIN. report in The Dominion (5.9.72. p.5.) blaming the 1965 Paul Kells Springbok team manager in New Zealand, Mr Kobus Louw, as a WE ACCEPT BIKES AS DEPOSITS ON CARS representative of the ultra-nationalist Afrikaaner secret society, * AUTOLAND the Broederbond, for forcing Dr Koornhof’s hard-line statement on “ mixed” trials, and the involvement of ex-Springbok captain 5 Exmouth St (off Newton Rd) Dawie de Villiers in Nationalist Party politics to the extent of being a Nationalist Party be-election candidate, highlights the extent to which rugby officials and players are committed to the AMERICAN REEERENCE LIBRARY apartheid status quo in South Africa. contact with South African sportsmen until the restrictions and NOW OPEN UNTIL 7.30 p.m. FRIDAY NIGHTS However, when pressed on the question o f acceptable sprts inequalities of apartheid are abolished, root and branch. It remains ties, Dr Ahmad gave as a sort of rule of thumb criterion, the to be seen then whethere our New Zealand sportsmen will ALL ENQUIRIES WELCOMED principle that all decisions relating to this matter should be made, continue to ignore their moral duty in the interests of cheap short PHONE 371-633 only in conformity with whether the contacts being considered,1 term gains which debase their own human dignity through assisted in breaking down the barriers between the peoples of association with the only nation in the modern world which as a 27 SYMONDS STREET. South Africa, or whether they perpetuated the enslavement and matter of political policy aims at the continued enslavement of the the isolation of the black peoples from the outside world. In the, great mass of its population, or whether they will yet retrieve this light of Souther African Government policy and the recent events, nation’s international reputation and good name. ultim ately, adherence to such a criterion means there can be no GARY CLOVER (d) New Zealand aid and technical knowledge to be made available Daces in those REVOLUTIONARY FILM SHOWING mber all the to island governments. (e) The question of the Maori in our community in the eyes of theTHURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER, ULT. 1-2pm: WILMINGTON, ims is, surely, party is that he is a New Zealander and as such w ill be entitled and BLACK PANTHER. rell, to all you WHITE MAN’S to receive the same rights as the white man. However a FRIDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER, ULT, 1-2pm, 79 SPRINGS. arly . . . MY BURDEN... programme will be undertaken by a National Socialist MONDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER, ULT, 1-2PM: THE SEASONS 0 you say ... government to educate the Maori at a level o f his own CHANGE, and FE LIX IN REVOLT. development and within his own community thus not creating Sponsored by: AUSA Young Socialists and the Socialist Action 1 may tell you League. the same conditions as in the United States where Blacks are ire also some forced to compete w ith white students at a level he is not ; than human) familiar with. OW that I am p just as easily Therefore I take this opportunity to ask every white student g flat on ones and Maori to do something positive against the reason that infests high government circles. Moving into the suburbs, or pretending lg at the bare that a race problem does not exist like CARE and HART and the rt of the new Government is a cowards way out. sick are cured w crapped out em justifiably DPLE EXIST, pumping one Free University is . . . I’ll look MAN IN SEARCH OF AUTHORITY )ity) . :. such ROOBB who wants to ©IMA P. COM AU. RtftHTJ RtSfRy*D To complete our examination of Authority we are trying to grass . . . and assemble the widest possible panel o f contributors versed in the murder, and different aspects o f the two remaining topics. even in a drug On Tuesday 19th September the topic will be “ Authority of teed a glimpse PROBLEMS Human wants and needs.” Proceedings will be under chairmanship and opening positins should be as brief as possible with a lim it of 5 E . .. I know A National Socialist viewpoint and solution minutes. We commence at 1 pm and are open to continue till 5pm. •obably die so by D.C. King-Ansell At the Old Synagogue Hall corner of Princes St and Bowen jst in my own Avenue. In the past year the problem of race has come slowly to a head. More and more New Zealanders are becoming STUDY Jational GAY aware of the fact that their race is in danger of being it. wiped out by the suicidal immigration policies of the BANDAGES NOT BULLETS FOR VIETNAM and be paid for it iund you ... present political parties. The stupidity of the National and losed .. . why On August 12, the Students Association International Affairs Apply now for study awards in Labour Party politicians is jeopardising the very future of you in your committee and staff Against The War organised a door-to-door the country. ACCOUNTANCY ECONOMICS a person too? canvass in several parts of Auckland to raise funds for the British We are told continuely by Government that all the coloureds Medical Aid Committee which sends medical supplies to the Red Next year you could be paid $400 as well as link all is well entering New Zealand are either students seeking an education, or. Cross Societies of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and of the your university bursary. tion that has that they are highly trained personnel with only a small minority National Liberation Front. The canvass also had an educational being uneducated. The truth in fact, is that a good majority of irth, that you purpose: an informative leaflet was left in every home, describing Post this coupon to: The Education Officer, ther form ... these migrants come from some of the small islands scattered the automated air war which is making life worse than ever for the about the Pacific, and have never seen the inside of a classroom in State Services Commission, Private Bag, Wellington. laying tax the people of Indochina. their lives. The result was highly encouraging. Most of those approached Please send me information on study awards in 0, when some Since the end of the last war, the United Nations, through the donated. Only about 4% were antagonistic to aiding north as well H I Accountancy [ ] Economics 1. If you want ignominious Genocide Act, have forced New Zealand politicians to as south Vietnam; and a similar small percentage said“ If you were Name...... f money ...” accept the fact that they must become a multi-racial community, only helping the south, I wouldn’t have given” ! devoid of any cultural heritage and racial pride. The Government the work HE This very favourable reception allowed only 50 collectors to Address. has admitted approximately since 1945 some 33,000 coloured gather $500. ' so that they migrants from the Pacific Islands. Next Saturday, Sept 1 6, a similar canvass will be held. You can could call it There are two major events in the post-war years which have pick up your collection tin at the Student Union (1st floor APPLICATIONS CLOSE 10th NO\^M BERj 97^ E made them broughf the problem of race onto everybody’s doorstep. The common room) any time 9-2pm. You will be driven to and from increased crime rate in all New Zealand cities and towns that have tiled i t . .. it’s your assigned street. had coloured immigrants forced upon them. The high occurrance remember it. Please give a couple of hours of your lime this Saturday for the of disease and the filthy conditions under which the coloured people of Indo-china. We can gather many hundreds of dollars for ,top to fight a community thrives, have forced the white citizens further out into medical aid, and we can reach thousands of homes with the leaflet deserve it. the countryside, leaving the inner city suburbs as coloured ghettos. showing that the War is not winding down but is worse than ever. sn’t . .. (Nor The second in'm y mind and most shocking event is the recent We can affect thousands of Auckland homes with this dual ramming through Parliament of that disgusting treasonable activity — i® of us are document called THE RACE RELATIONS ACT. This act has only here for you one point and that is it discriminates in favour of the coloured and BUT ONLY IF YOU HELP! or oppression enacts harsh penalties against anyone willing to defend the White . Blue Mink: people against the hords of coloureds who seem determined to ON A SALARY LIKE THAT 1 so in all fair destroy all that the whites have built. WHO WOULDN'T HAVE A GUTSFUL? I would now like to list a few facts which our politicians in e you see me Wellington seem to turn a blind eye to. Also basic facts of what we e . . . I meant believe is happening. Wouldn't you know it — just by coincidence — we burie ,. ..__, 1. Coloureds are a basic cause of such problems as discontent, have a shop full of books by people who have had a Iso made me slum areas, violent crimes, overpopulation in certain areas and gutsful of people who have had a gutsful of people health. summers limited 2 country are who resist repressive legislation, discrimination, 2. 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M ade in England A tom ic Rooster A Review of D.W. Lochore: P N L S 3 0 3 8 Records, Books, Film ‘The Last Picture Reviewer’. Atomic Rooster are not a new group and The Auckland Star has recently over the past few years they’ve managed to turn started a nightly colum in order to out a number of good albums. On this album they have the addition of vocalist Chris Farlowe and Theatre ‘further the arts’. A good start could be late of Colesseum. Farlowe’s vocals feature made by sacking D.W . Lochore. His film strongly on the album, beginning at the first reviews tend to be less reviews o f films track, Time Take My life. This track has an air of Family or even than alarm ing exposes o f his ow n lack of Traffic about it - a tight number with organ tooth, m uscle, jaw , w it or bow el; his own Players, V featuring predominately and a full line-up of lack o f judgem ent; his failure to com e to Sutton, f horns and strings in the background, perhaps even approxim ate grips w ith the esthetics Michael G< not a good sample of Rooster’s style although Direction the next track Stand By Me, certainly is. I have Now someone might easily turn up his nose time to be had by all. o f film ; in fact his in a b ility to conceive of David Wat the feeling that this track was also released as a at this approach and dismiss it as precious, This is a really fine song on side one called film as anything apart from a vehicle. Panavision single, the sound is very familiar. Although it transparent, even comical. But an Poor Mans Son, which is the one to ask the For example his review of The Last 111 mins. could just be s sub-conscious recognition of store to play, when you rush downtown understanding of a sympathy with Procul Picture Show. It is a ‘notable’ film, he says, From basic Rooster music. Real Rooster stuff, the clutchin Craccum and scream “lemme hear Harem’s attitude leads one to accept this album ‘well-judged within its limits’, despite a ‘few Lovers in track is fast full and punchy, with Farlowes as the groups most forthright admission so far Mike D’Abo . . .”, which is the only way you’ll crudities along the way’. Mr Lochore has a vocal driving the point home. It’s also the Steve Bolton) D o n ’t K n o w W hat Salty Dog and In Held are the most effective complete since a browse of the credits reveals standards. It is, he says, ‘too restricted for Went Wrong, (a slowish rocker with Farlowe’s no familiar names except for those of Jon everything (especially the latter, which makes the old Universal appeal, but one certain to impress the actually h vocal sounding a lot like the early Rod Stewart) studio version sound like a sketchy blueprint) Kongos (not of M.M.) who plays guitar class of audience at which it is fairly and to Never To Lose, which has the best guitar extremely well on Belinda, My Life and us allow t though Conquistador doesn’t lag far behind. squarely aimed’, (sneer, sneer): it also has one story aboi solo on the album. Bolton really lets go on this In the Glimpses o f Nirvana portion of In T o m o rro w , and David Bailey, who took a ‘appalling lapse of taste which will make the one and the track becomes a deep medieval rather fine b&w photograph for the back of the railroaded H e ld , Brooker recites some words by Keith fastidious cringe’; yet what this ‘lapse’ is Mr he was c dirge, lashed by the flashing, screaming guitar. Reid that come closest to revealing what sleeve, thoughtfully including the top of the Lochore is too polite to mention. Perhaps we On side two, B reathless stands out as a fast head. He used to enjoy lopping of the tops in design. (R they’re all about: “If I can communicate&and mightn’t cringe. character pumping rock number - an entirely in the telling and the baring of my all those earlier, ritzy, Vogue shots. In fact Let us look at the grounds of which he instrumental track, its the longest on the album Mike D’Abo, on reflection both musically and Richelieu) soul/Anything is gained/Even tough the words I specifically judged The Last Picture Show. was satani and I can’t say I’m sorry for that. Vince Crane use are pretentious and make you cringe with photogenically, looks quite the carefully (a) its attitude: Lochore says it is uses his piano as both bass and lead and Bolton tailored well rounded type for a spread in at the stal embarrassment. . .” Tife-is-a-hellish-business’, which he also says of several again gets in some hot licks on guitar. Space Vogue. Quite the part indeed. After all life is like a beanstalk. Isn’t it. with supreme patronisation ‘impresses the so sexually C o w b o y is a little blurred, possibly the liner Norm DePloom. Richard Browning young audiences rather than the (infinitely believed h notes explain why, and People You Can’t Trust knowledgeable, vastly superior) i.e. ‘those who is the type of song that not even Mayall story Rus are old’. The inference is the attitude a film has Whiting ar brought of well. will determine the worth of a film; in the case Rooster don’t let themselves get bogged Aldous Hu of the Last Picture Show, if you’re over 30 give Russell down though. A ll in Satan’s Name is a number it a miss. written by the drummer, Ric Parnell and aptly described (b) its story; which includes ‘outstanding It is. Irrii illustrates the finer points of Rooster’s music. A performances’, a ‘philosophical tang’, a heavy number that lets percussion and Vanessa R ‘poignant’ character. Loch ore’s film reviews Reed as tl Hammond dominate, its fleshed out by a always read as book reviews; which underlines synthesizer that will curl your ears — not performan pretty well his concept of film. Does it have a Grandier forgetting Farlowes vocal, delievered as if from ‘good story’; is it ‘told well’. some Satanic lecturn, in another time. By (c) its potential audience. This is perhaps comparison, Close Your Eyes, the end track is part of Mr Lochore’s job, to scent out the somewhat tame. Not that its a bad track by any indecent, to alert those suburban house-wives means. Again Farlowe uses his voice in a to the theatre, in need of an aphrodisiac. The Stewartlike manner - including his double Last Picture Show gets one star for its tracked falsetto in the background a cheerful ‘appalling lapse of taste’. Kiddies and old men track and a good note on which to end this welcome. review with a hint for the still undecided. The film is altogether dismissed in barely Check it out yourself. one quarter of a column; compared with almost Peter Hampton an entire page for the flummeries of Dame Grave New W orld Anna Needle. Perhaps this is the space he is D ow n at R achel’s Place S t a w b s allotted; this is understandable. Is he, however, M ide D’Abo unaware he has produced a film review which is A&M SAM L 934522 SAM L 934586 almost a caricature of what he is talking about: his evasions, innuendos, the very inadequacies On this, the Stawbs Fifth album, the group of his concept parallel, in some way, the Mike D’A is no ordinary run of the mill now numbers five, and the group can be hasbeen — which is obvious when one considers inadequacies of that very generation the film thought of as an electric band rather than as a talks about. Does he ever stop to think what a just exactly what he has been. pop-folk outfit. Dave Cousins has a feeling for This first solo album R a c h e l’s Place film, the film is all about? Is a film always a the ecclesiastical in his melodies, lyrics and ‘story’ in pictures? Does the message of the film conceivably has opened new doors for him as singing. Several of his songs here are an artist, despite the fact that what it contains conform to its presentation? Is the usual forthrightly religious and might be called organisation of a film a tool deliberately bears a remarkable resemblance to the clearly contemporary hymns. Benidictus, New World distinctive style of the middle and late designed to smooth down its content? Why is and Journeys End, each combining traditional Manfredd Mann. Hardly surprising'as any Mann Weekend a supremely political film whereas devotional feeling with a modern cosmic The Battle of Algiers is a beautifully pitched, freak would by now have told you, or anyone uncertainty, are dramatic becuase of their with a modicum of suss would soon work out, seductive milksop to the liberal conscience, contradictions. These songs are the albums high Lochore’s review of the Last Picture Show in Mike D’Abo was lately lead singer, pianist and points, although some of the more secular songs general all purpose guiding light of the some way is so inconsequential if -it were not apply archaic or ecclesiastical elements to V i aforesaid, since deceased ensemble. there by its negative presence it would not be almost equally dramatic ends. The Flower and Presumably enlisted to fill the gap left by there at all. the Young Men, for example, begins with a The basic decision for Mr Lochore would Procul Harem — Live w ith the Paul Jones, he obviously compensated with a strong-voiced choralle singing lines of rustic fine songwriting talent and musical proficiency seem to be whether the film is in black and Edm onton Sym phony Orchestra syntax and religious symbolism, “While seasons white. Is it in colour? Will it shock? Is it in in many ways, for the unique vocal dynamism change in timely way/. . . A single flower grows A&M SAM L 934560 .4 that was so obviously lacking after Jone’s TASTE. ‘Taste’ is the essential esthetic . . . ” Blue Weavers harmonium deepens the judgement of Mr Lochore; the presumption departure. songs antique quality and is added to by a This album might be retrospectively named being anything can be swallowed as long as the Proving more resiliant than all the Manfreds melotron. Procul Harem Making it Again. While their put together, Mike is offering his solo self on sugar is saccherine enough; which is true. Yet This album basically gives the feeling that what exactly is this mythical thing called taste music has never pretended to be anything other record, and, once again, proving all those old the Stawbs can’t decide whether they want to than dramatic and pictorial, Gary Brookers’ if not a specious value judgement; if not yet cliches about keeping good men down. be the next Fairport convention, Procul Harem arrangements employ the chorus and orchestra Opening up his bag of goodies Mike reveals a another little part of the emasculating, or Incredible String Band and their confusion is punishing prison around us. Be tasteful, dear. to make more obvious than ever the place of doubtful looking melange one is tempted to be reducting their possibilities for success in any of those qualities in Procul Harems music. Take cautious in efusing over - Rachels Place, the Shut up. This is implicit in Lochore’s taste, these areas. While not making a bad album they implicit in his silent judgements, his unspecified the second break in Conquistador, which title track is neither hot rock nor pleasant pop. can’t be said to be progressively moving on in sounds like nothing but the score from an early It is more like luke warm wobble and one objections, his so-called esthetic values. their music. Not in everyones taste this album Who does have taste in the final analysis. Sixties wide-screen epic on the Spanish immediately asks oneself, is this the real thing won’t lose any of previous albums sales. conquest of the New World, replete with B e lin d a Evidently Mr Lochore or merely musical hedge clippings? is Murray Thompson swooping strings and bullfight horns. Or the another poignant “ portrait of a lady” as is (black orchid). FROM THE < ELAM .. working class was beyond him. Had Brecht broken free of his own constrictions, Grass i edition of maintains that he would have faced the added of world views, dilemma of contributing to the cause of the ons and recipes, workers, in more than an insubstantial fashion, emera revived, in a form the workers could recognize. emerated by the A rather complicated play then. And what ! university art ;an Mr Kernander do with a delicately amateur nt and its 20c, cast, an unconvincingly sparse set, the atrocious University Hall, and a shoestring budget kindly donated by a Students’ Association Executive caught unawares? The answer is, not a very great deal. Given the difficulty of the play, success of sorts could be claimed for merely keeping the piece afloat, by managing to appear at least workmanlike. In those terms then, success of sorts should be claimed. Certainly, the actors were not pressed to try for anything more, especially the rather unconvincing Brecht. And that was the most impressive aspect of .ochore: the production . a knowledge of limits and ;viewer’. plausible operation within those limits. This reflects very well on Mr Kiernander as has recently director; The obvious temptations that in order to confront brilliant young researchers-turned-directors were scrupulously start could be avoided. Members of the audience felt no need hore. His film to squirm with embarassment and were able to lew s o f films THE PLEBIANS REHEARSE THE enjoy the production’s unpretnetiousness. Now, this is not at all to find some s own lack of UPRISING THE DEVILS By G unter Grass condescending praise for the production. It ow el; his own Players, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley The sets and the photography are superb. should be noted that even with the most Directed by Adrian Kiernander at the re to come to Sutton, Max ADrian, Gemma Jones, and Russell depicts the horror with graphic professional of companies and the greatest U niversity H all i the esthetics Michael Gothard as Father Barre. exactitude, and his direction is in many ways availability of resources, it would have been Direction & Screenplay: his nibs. Photography: excellent. However, the whole thing seems to impossible to avoid Grass’s refusal to have 0 conceive of David Watkin. be tainted, leaky, and it’s very hard to say why. THE THREEPENNY OPERA ‘hidden’ conceits abstracted out of his play. a vehicle. Panavision. Technicolour. R18 with warning. I don’t think it is simply his excessive style, By B ertolt Brecht and K urt W eill Grass would have been careful to avoid the trap of The Last 111 mins. because it is conceivable that this sort of style he set for Brecht. Yet Grass has tried to D irected by ’ film, he says, From Women in Love through The M u sic could form a satisfactory motion-picture, postulate a set of questions to do with art and despite a ‘few Lovers into the banal carryings on of The maybe it’s because there is no relief from the at the M ercury relevance, while ensuring that both art and Lochore has a B o y frie n d , Ken Russell has charged on his neurotic hysteria. But even then the answer relevance are retained within his own play. his objections: giddy bewildering way. Now with what seems seems to lie elsewhere. The real fault is the Brecht is the fortuitous name in Auckland While his postulations may be clear, the play is own political to be sheer relish Russell lets fly with The same one that plagued Women in Love, and theatre this month. Mercury have a play by metaphor to his belief that no answers are general, and Devils. The warning issued by the censor is that is an essential hollowness. In Women in Brecht. Coincidence, or a well-timed comment? easily arrived at, but that answers certainly do idgements: in quite justified, Ken Russell is here in full gory L o ve the threatening tension that should have For Brecht was a man of strong social not come through intricate embellishments that 1 he judges the swing for 111 excruciating minutes. been there wasn’t, and the lack of was covered conscience, given to writing many plays in have no substance. defence of the exploited and misunderstood entirely moral The D e v ils opens with a statement that over with a brilliant display of mimesis. In The By a tight control of finances, the play is restricted for everything you are about to be served up with Devils we are given the horrors, but not the working classes; The Threepenny Opera is a fine free to all students and to Arts Festival i to impress the actually happaned, and supposedly that makes sense of dread which should have been the example. But Gunter Grass, in The Plebians registrees. It is an effort that is worth seeing. is fairly and us allow the film more weight. Yes, there is a chassis of it. Russell is like a high powered Rehearse The Uprising, suspects that Brecht Mercury’s The Threepenny Opera has the it also has one story about a certain Father Grandier who was engine revving itself silly, but not connected to had too strong a conscience and too weak a advantages of a professional company and will make the railroaded by Richelieu and his minions becuase anything. This would seem to be why (for me power to act. Brecht’s conscience was strong by realistic resources. These do not always help, as is ‘lapse’ is Mr he was obstructive to the Cardinals’ grand at least) Ken Russell’s films never give any virtue of its complexity. His mind was so full of was witnessed by an absolutely horrendous on. Perhaps we design. (Russell seems to have read up on the satisfaction. Some people enjoy his work, and I the conceits of artistic radicalism, that butchering of Shakespeare’s Loves Labours character of Mazarin rather than that of can see why, he is after all a very talented man. recognition of the heart-felt passions of the Lost. The Threepenny Opera, however, is a ls of which he Richelieu). The excuse to dispose of this priest If you saw Women in Love and liked it, go ______Gantct P Iti-- ire Show. was satanic possession and he was duly burned by that, because this film is on a par with that e says it is at the stake. He was cooked on the testimony one. Both are very much better than The M usic he also says of several Ursuline nuns who were apparently L o ve rs or The Boyfriend. For myself I was impresses the so sexually hung-up about this priest they really most interested to see just what was so the (infinitely believed he’s bedevilled them. Well that’s the shocking, there’s a couple of episodes which i.e. ‘those who story Russell gets from the play by John could give some people nightmares, but see for yourself. Latest reports have it that Russell is Procul Harem tude a film has Whiting and the book The Devils o f Loudun by Im; in the case Aldous Huxley. making another film, this time about a young re over 30 give Russells’ method of treatment has been French sculptor at the beginning of this century described as excessive, frustrating and irritating. who has a torrid love affair with a woman twice ;s ‘outstanding It is. Irritating because he is hard to fault. his age. Title . . . Savage Messiah. Heaven help cal tang’, a Vanessa Redgrave as the hunchback nun, Oliver us. film reviews Reed as the fiery priest both turn in credible Howard Willis. iich underlines performances, and Gemma Jones as the girl Does it have a Grandier secretly marries is especially good. X" ’his is perhaps scent out the n house-wives hrodisiac. The star for its > and old men ssed in barely :d with almost ries of Dame e space he is > he, however, :view which is talking about: inadequacies ne way, the tion the film think what a film always a ge of the film Is the usual deliberately itent? Why is film whereas lilly pitched, I conscience, ture Show in f -it were not } W i i vould not be ichore would in black and ock? Is it in tial esthetic Bank of New Zealand LIVE! presumption is long as the EDUCATION LOANS and is true. Yet financial CONSULTING SERVICE I called taste NOW AVAILABLE on ABM t; if not yet for Auckland University students :masculating, isteful, dear, a%k for your leaflet at the SAML 934560 h ore’s taste, BNZ University Office adjacent s unspecified ues. to the University Post Office nal analysis. and mailroom Continued from p.13 betrayal and deceit are matched on a more For a company though, paranoid after its chorus.” The idea was to make both redemption. In fact, the greatest disservice paid mammoth scale by the legalized authorities, but worst disaster (Loves Labours Lost) and likely law-enforcer and law-breaker part of an by the production, was not to the author that no true social or political revolution is to follow Bute Hewes’s ill-conceived advice immaculate retention of the political status Brecht, but to the composer Weill. For at least possible through crime alone. (Arts & Community, July) that it should play quo. Mercury left out thoughts of overcoming half of the musical numbers, Mercury musicians It was this last point that the Mercury failed to audience comfort, without too many the status quo and also left the assorted heroes wallowed their way through exceptionally to make. The first two points are immediately inconvenient demands, strategy meant and villains too readily identifiable. paltry arrangements. recognisable, and, because they can be seen highlighting the immediately perceptible points But why complain? It’s rather nice, In this play, Brecht portrays an imitation of from a single dimension, easily portrayed. The with as much polish, glamour and spectacle occasionally, to be impressed despite oneself. lives and loyalties in the 1920’s criminal last point, only hinted at throughout the play possible. And I hate to admit that it worked!* Stephen Chan underground. The message is that the poor have itself demands a production that will allow it to' even though Brecht’s original intentions seem a right to crime if no further opportunities are infiltrate and inform unrelated, though strategic to have desired an end to “sharply defined open to them, that their various indulgences in moments. heroes, heroines, villains, and the ubiquitous National Maori Language Day ^Continued, from page 3 IMPORTANT NOTICES DEPARTMENT REFERENDUM students were punished for using it. From that time Tomorrow a referendum will be held to settle two maters generations of Maori students have faced a schooling arising from the Winter General Meeting. stem actively hostile to the language they heard at CREATIVE LIVING AND LOVING The first part of the referendum will be the motion: Moved: Lack/Whitten-Hannah home. Slowly the policy had an effect. In 1913 an More experiences in creative living and loving will be "THAT this Association, believing that a further term of estimated 90% of Maori schoolchildren spoke Maori; by happening this term. The known events will be those you move through with other National Party Government would be to the lasting detriment 1950 the percentage among entrants to the special Maori people. You will hopefully become involved in both the agonies of the country as a whole, whilst not being entirely enamoured schools was down to 55%. Yet Maori refused to disappear. and the ecstasies o f exploring movement, music, paint and clay of the Labour Party and its leaders, does nevertheless hereby In many cases Maori children spoke no Maori at school, together. The only qualification is being a person. endorse and pledge its support for the Labour Party in the Here is an opportunity to relax and relate creatively during but still spoke it at home. No teaching of subjects other coming election." the next few weeks. Some of the people involved will be: Linda YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES-VOTE YES OR NO. Taylor, Deborah Pearson, Peter Biggs, Jack Body, Hugh than those specifically Maori was done in Maori. Hence The Rules of the Association prohibit any alteration of a the present lack of Maori words for mathematical Warburton, Valerie and Rex Hunton, Tony Stones, Sally Rodwell and Claire Ward. r eferred m otion w ith o u t good reason. concepts and the like. It’s a bit much to claim that this Thursdays 7.30 sharp at the counselling buildings, 51 I have seen no good reason to alter the m otion. This is a policy situation which has resulted from systematic suppression Symonds St. Please telephone Christing: 74-740 ext 595 or 596 to motion; and as such, if passed by simple majority, is collectively is a natural state of affairs and one that proves Maori is let us know you are coming. binding on the Association. 30 cents per night covers coffee and materials. Along with the Labour Party motion, I have put an Opinion unable as a language to cope with these concepts. The Poll on the ballot sheet. This Poll asks you whether you think the only answer to that line of reasoning is a more recent IF YOU ATTAIN THE AGE OF 20 YEARS /^ociation should pledge its support for one of the political adaption, “ bull-tutai”. It’s never been given a chance. BEFORE THE END OF NOVEMBER, 1972 parties, or to no party at all. I shall publish the Poll results along vith the referendum results. It is strange to ask why it is necessary to encourage the YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO ENROLE TO The second part of the referendum is to define our policy on cqntnuance of a language that is spoken by about 50,000 VOTE IN THE COMING GENERAL ELECTION abortion. You must ENROLE. The qualifications are: people and understood by almost doubel that figure in a YOU HAVE FOUR CHOICES: country with a total population of just under three 1. If you have attained the age of 20 years; (1) A bortion should be made available on demand million, yet such is the pressure of the European society 2. If you are a British subject ordinarily resident in New (2) The present laws should be liberalised on the Maori to conform to it’s ways of running the Zealand; (3) The present laws are satisfactory 3. If you have at some period resided continuously in (4) The present laws should be tightened. country and it’s socio-economic patterns that any New Zealand for one year or longer; Please tick that choice, on your paper, which is closest to your bi-culturism really encouraged is token. The type of 4. If you have resided in the Electoral District for a heart. bi-culturism that allows any differences that do not period of three months or longer. Polling booths will be open from 10am to 4pm tomorrow complicate the already complicated business of running (15th September 1972). If you qualify, then: the country. And having to co-ordinate two different References: Minutes of the Winter General Meeting of the (a) You must APPLY to have your name registered on the A.U.S.A., Wednesday 9th 1972. life-styles, two different economic structures, and two Parliamentary Electoral Roll. P.7. RN 28 and RN 30. different languages is definitely complicating. So while (b) Complete the card "Application For Enrolment on Neil Newman Maori action songs, haka, and traditional arts are The Parliamentary Electoral Roll", available at every ADMINISTRATIVE VICE-PRESIDENT encouraged as bi-culturism, the Maori' family unit is Post Office, Court-house and Registrar of Electors. Could person or persons who removed photographs from the formalised by making adoption of children a process to be (c) After completing and signing the card, and the exhibition in the Snack Bar (Mez floor of S.U. Building) bring the put through the red tape; while Maori language as a appropriate witnessing, this must be sent in the photographs back, they are urgently needed as part of this years provided envleope to the local Registrar of Electors. w ork by the owner. Please leave in the Craccum office or ring subject is being introduced in secondary schools and Ashok B 75-036 tertiary education it is still not encouraged in the primary division where it’s real advantage of helping to promote genuine bi-culturism would be realised. How can it be asked whether Maori is still necessary when it is still the primary language of the Maori “ hui”, the meetings where the policy and opinion of the Maori people is shaped, in the “ tangi” where the dead are farewelled, the most precious and moving occasion in Maoritanga? When it is said that Maori is no longer necessary, what is really being said is that these aspects of Maori culture are no longer necessary. And that is saying the Maori culture is no longer necessary. Face it—How can a culture survive without the language that expresses and rises from its centre? Take the case of the Maori who knows little Maori. Because of the pressure of the state educational system because of the spread of radio/television to even the more remote areas of New Zealand (radio/television that is in English with the tokenism of the Maori news and a few programmes), and because it has been assumed by both pakeha and Maori that the knowledge of Maori hinders the learning of English, he cannot speak Maori. As a result he cannot take part fully in the Maori community. He cannot join in the “whai korero” (discussion—how inadequate a translation) on the marae, nor, as the “tangata whenua” (host) of his house, he cannot greet his “ manuhiri” (guests) and so feel the satisfaction of t £ h fulfilling his role in his society. It would be possible to go on for a long time listing when he would need to speak Maori. W*- t, a ■■ f v . - ; The Maori language will only be readily available to 4 .% ii

those who need and wish to learn it, if it is generally and i- * 3 a genuinely encouraged by both pakeha and Maori. It is up Zt, ^ * * £.*>*«*' to us. Taura Eruera, NZUSA Vice President, speaking on the TeRapunga marae.

charged w ith : Possessing a narcotic A L O O K A T : with the legislature’s and courts’ paranoia about Auckland leader in opening his case with (methadrine); Possessing an instrument for the ALICE-IN-THE-LOOKING-GL a SS drugs generally. illustrations of the Law, which is properly left purpose of using a narcotic (a pen knife for The burden of proof, traditionally resting to the final address. OR THE INTERVARSITIES frying cannabis), and possession o f an illegal with the Prosecution to show guilt beyond However there were mistakes on both sides; LAW MOOTING CONTEST. quantity of cannabis. Auckland appeared for “ reasonable doubt” , has in effect, tended to supporting counsel for Otago kept asking such Dullness, occasionally enlivened by the Crown and Otago fo r the down and outers. shift to the accused to show that he did not— a) leading questions as; “ What did you see, when Mr Hillyer QC presided. witticisms or funny errors on the part of possess anything, b) was completely innocent you saw Inspector Vice discover the Cannabis A few interesting facts relating to witnesses, was the keynote of the two of any intent, or knowledge of the drug. stained knife?” (laughter) “ possession” came to light. Did you realize that and ahalf hour long “trial” of three Law ground its dreary and sometimes petty ‘Residue’ replied to the question; “ where you don’t even have to know that you have was the knife found?” thus: “ It was found in students for drug offences. way to find, on lack of evidence (mainly), “ not drugs in your possession, to be convicted? Even the rear of the drawer which is at the back of After Tuesday’s win by Otago over Victoria, g u ilty ” . This verdict, I suspect, was at variance if it was unreasonable to expect you to know! the drawer, because the fro n t is at the fro n t and and Auckland’s win-by-default over Canterbury w ith what the Judge thought, but the ju ry were This particular area o f the law has, it seems, not at the back.” (laughter). on Wednesday, the STONE MOOT COURT was all students, so what do you expect? evolved towards a stage where the suspect is The trials have been useful in giving the packed last night for the knockout between Otago team won by one point. guilty until proved innocent. Possession has uninitiated an insight into the way our courts Auckland and Otago. Both teams had a very thorough knowledge become prima facie material in itself, the guilty work and thus may have been an inducement to The facts of the case were: Habit, Residue of court room technique, and Otago’s win mind or intent to commit a crime has been keep out of them. and Sight, three students, were respectively stemmed mainly from the major error made by swept aside in the “ dragnet” o f strict liability, - MICHAEL KIDD. RADICAL RADIO...up U n THE POLITICS OF HYSTERIA What looked to be one of the more promising Arts Festival Cambodia's projects was grounded in its opening stages — Radio U. The Federation of Independent Commercial Broadcasters — which includes Hauraki and Radio i — opposed the granting of a young temporary license by the Broadcasting Authority on the grounds that the radio was not an integral part of Arts Festival. They further qualified this by saying that Auckland is served by two warriors private and two NZBC radio stations. The implication being that the service provided at the moment is adequate. The questions TT was thrilling and arise to whose needs are being serviced and how is it possible for hearrt-warming to what is an adequate to gauge that the service is adequate. It is read that our brave more likely that “good guy” radio is looking after its own boys in Vietnam are, commercial interests. with their allies, train­ It was the so-called illegal actions of Hauraki in the first place ing the 9 to 13-year- that established that out there in the great grey wastes of broadcasting land — so long adequately serviced by aunty NZBC — old heroes who are there exists an audience thirsting for something different. In its being prepared to early days private radio presented a rebellious looking alternative withstand the barbar­ to what we had all been used to for so long and listening to ous tide of communism Hauraki, broadcasting from the gulf, was like participating in an that threatens our way illegal act, for a short time at least. However the energy emanating of life in the free from private radio is part of the manic drive to move merchandise worid. and that is its limit. The shallow enthusiasm of consumer radio leads rapidly to tedium. The support given to Radio U in its brief I. F. LATIMER existence at the festival, when it was broadcasting without a I license, shows that an audience exists for an alternative (just about any alternative) to radio in its present form. Arts Fest Commiserations Radio is a powerful medium of communication and a powerful Roger C. Cowell medium of indoctrination. Just as it can be used to foster the I had a good time at the Festival. That is, I enjoyed a good ideology of consumerism it can be used for the opposite purposes. portion of films, music, poetry, exhibitions, workshops, drama The status quo is maintained first by the control it has over the and ballet. I know I got my registrations worth many times over. minds of men. Radio serves a political end by appearing to remain Yet for me and for many, from Auckland and from other neutral, and “balanced”. It presents a greater threat in the hands campuses, something was missing. What? of radicals than does an underground printing press. Alternative A UNITY, a common feeling, a community feeling. It was not ideas and viewpoints contrary to those of the National/Labour easy to make new friends (except for the lucky flamboyant few?). status quo are potentially in the home of anyone who owns a I talked to a few established friends, and casually to a few other radio. Private radio is acceptable because its motive from the start people, but mostly we stuck to ourselves, our cliques and our birds was to crawl into the belly of the establishment rather than to and our guys. Too much of the festival encouraged yie ‘them-us’ shake it. feeling—them performing, us sitting back and doing nothing much The Federation representing Radio Hauraki and Rakio i also but listening, watching. There is no participation in this sort of claimed that if a temporary license was approved for Radio U the thing; all is sterile for the majority. I tried to avoid as much of the Broadcasting Authority could get a flood of applications for sterile stuff, to go to workshops and informal groups. This temporary warrants. The inherent dangers are the possibility that helped—a little. some might be granted and the probability that they might be What was wrong with Artsfest? ls it too big? Possibly, but I listened to. The so-called democratic society is supposed to thrive feel there are a few things which could be remembered for future on alternative view points.' Artsfests. Firstly, the more people living on and close to campus, Its time for Rubbish Radio to be superceded by Rabid Radio. the more alive community it can be. Secondly, the emphasis Create two, three . .. many Radio U’s. should not necessarily be on sophisticated drama and rock FESTIVAL CHESS concerts, but on the workshops, participation and spontaneity, The perrenial rivalry between Auckland and Victoria finally with lotsa people working, playing, entertaining each other remarkable feat on the first day by playing on the top three together. Perhaps lots of little things which don’t demand too took a turn in Auckland’s favour when Auckland held Victoria to a 2-2 draw on the final day of the Invervarsities Chess tournament, boards simultaneously against Otago and winning all three, while much organising. Things like the Pooh readings and Expedition to waiting for the rest of the Victoria team to arrive. For Auckland the North Pole, the street fair (what street fair?), sensory and squeaked through to win the tournament by 15 points to the best score was Peter Weir with 4'A points out of 5. awareness and street theatre can be developed and be allowed to Victoria’s 13Yt. develop casually. I am not sure that much money should In the previous two years, Auckland has led the tournament The International telegraphic match, Sydney Universities v NZ necessarily be spent to bring people like Barry Humphries here, going into the last round, only to be thrashed by Victoria and lose. universities, stands at 3Yi ■ 3Vi, with eight incomplete games to be even in a participatory role. (Sure he was very funny at times, and Waikato and Lincoln were competing for the first time, and judged. This should be a victory for NZ universities. confirmed our prejudices and beliefs, and it was fun chatting with Waikato did well to finish third. Paul Garbett playing board one The scoreboard for the Intervarsities tournament is: Auckland him in the caf, but he could have been anybody—even Bill Spring, for Auckland won four out of five games, losing to Victoria’s Kurt 15, Victoria 1314, Waikato 13, Otago 10'/2, Canterbury V/i, or Bruce Kirkland, and said the same things.) A series of big Pomeroy. Lincoln Vi. murals could be painted by anybody, a massive scratch orchestra Auckland will send a team to Waikato on Sept. 16 for a match in the park,—such things could be going on anytime people Victoria was beset by difficulties throughout the tournament, on eight boards. wanted. ABOVE ALL, we need to get away from the terrible with an ambiguous sealed move (automatic loss) against Auckland, "programme” idea, where most people ‘plan’ out what they’re and the main team arriving late. But Craig Laird pulled off a J ohn Laird going to do and see—the “what’s next?” attitude which stops any and his almost complete domination o f Association affairs spontaneity and drift into unity. The closer (physically) all things THE POWER OF are to each other, the greater the overlap, the more interaction was clearly evident to all, except those he was stranger to stranger there will be. THE ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY manipulating. Artsfest should be a people festival, an orgasmic celebration, Bob Hillier. The present Admin. Sec., Miss Margery Macky took NOT a funereal adhering to programmes and venues, and “them” office toward the end o f 1971. Another strong entertaining “us”. The only way for a good Artsfest, which will The Administrative Secretary of AUSA is the senior bring people together without registration or timetabling, is for personality, Miss Macky has as yet appeared not to seize everyone to come along with the idea of celebrating in spontaneity administrative officer of the Association under the the initiative in order to gain control o f the Association. with others. Of course there would be people who come along President, and responsible, through the President, to the But after twelve months and a new Exec, in office it is with teeth gritted "I’m gonna be spontaneous, just watch me”, Executive. The holder of that office is supposedly possible that we may see her influence to a greater extent but, ahhh these clouds around my head are nice. responsible for the organisation of the Association office than to date. President Russell Bartlett has versed himself Craccum editor and its staff, upkeep of Association records, and generally well in all facets of Association affairs and thus will be a to ensure a high degree of administrative e fficie n cy in the buffer against the domination o f the Admin. Sec. during Applications office. The position is in no way a policy formulating the next year. He will ensure strict definition of the position, it is purely an administrative one (bureaucratic, functions of his own and Miss Macky’s respective Following two motions passed at last Thursday's if you like). Thus the Admin. Sec. is not responsible for positions, but if the Secretary entertains any notions of a Craccum Admin. Board m eeting, th ere are two AUSA policy except that he/she may be icalled upon to modifications to the conditions by which next power grab then she will be able to do so through the administer according to the terms of Association policy. - year's editor will be selected. weaker members of the Exec, whom Bartlett cannot hope 1) Editorial applicants now have the Opportun­ Although the Admin. Sec. is an administrative officer, to control. ity to have their policy statements published she is still potentially the most powerful officer of the One may ask “ Why should the Admin. Sec. want to in Craccum. Statements should be available for Association. Her greater knowledge o f Association affairs control these people?” Simply because it makes the job of issue issue 24 (deadline next Thursday) from give her the edge over all the elected representatives in those who wish to take advantage of this. the Secretary that much easier. If a good working that she is in a better position to iinfluence their 2) Any member of the Students' Association may relationship is formed between the President and the now attend the interviews of candidates (at “ thinking” , thus their decisions, than any other member Secretary, then the Secretary’s work is made easier. Policy a time yet to be arranged) for the purpose of of the AUSA heirarchy. decisions and their effect on administrative matters are making submissions and/or asking questions. THE PREECE ERA then better defined. Since the Exec, is responsible for the HART DEMO The immediate past Admin. Sec., Mr Vaughn Preece, formulation of administrative decisions it is in the Monday 11th took on the position at a time when the Association was professional interest of the Admin. Sec. to influence the in dire straits, with careful and shrewd management he The trouble with honorary consuls is that they making o f these decisions either (a) to maker her own are terribly nice people. Who but an absolute put the Association ‘back on its feet’. His expertise at ;ask easier: or (b) to have her own ideas implemented, brick would represent Portugal for nothing in office administration allowed him to control the business rather than those of some half-baked megalomaniac Auckland? of the Association in keen fashion and also the student. So when a dozen members of HART fronted personalities elected by the student body. Bill Rudman Bureaucrats traditionally possess an innate suspicion of Mr L D Nathan, who in his words merely handles told me that he did not have a very happy time as elected representatives, and when those elected are also Portugal's trade interests ... nothing to do President with Mr Preece, but then Mike Law did. The mere “ babes in arms” , this suspicion also reaches with politics ... they were made to feel rather gauche but welcome nonetheless. reason? — Law differentiated between his position and proportions of complete lack of esteem. The bureaucrat Preece’s, and he ensured that the boundaries remained instinctively attempts to dominate, and where this is A fter handing over th e ir l e t t e r and one stable. A remarkable degree of definition was attained from Tom Newnham they grinned at everybody, impracticable, the bureaucrat prefers to define and fumbled into a lift (the first lift-sized between the two positions and thus Law and Preece separate functions. The latter case typified the Preece-Law demo?) and determined th a t next time a formed an effective working relationship. This is not to term, the former typified the Preece-Spring term. Miss co u rtly facade would not protect a man who, I say that they liked each other, but neither was able to Macky has now got a thorough grounding (or at least despite his pleas, is doing his best for the dominate the other. should have) in Association affairs, and in the future may white supremacists. /D.K. When the Spring Exec, took office, Preece found it find herself having to take the reins (in the event o f —— — — — —— ■——— I ■ . I ■ easy meat. The Exec, was riddled with weak links and the Indications are that the Sunday Herald will soon be shrinking another weak Exec.), or she may elect to take the reins of to a tabloid. Right on Craccum. talents of Preece were imperative to give it any strength, ier own accord. “HE IWI KOTAHI TATOU”, (“WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE” ) . .. “THE MAORI AND THE PAKEHA ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE UNITED IN FRIENDSHIP AND EQUALITY.” And thus the myths continue to fester in the mouths of the ignorant and deceived. What hope is there then for us, the Maori, when people are deceived by the deceived? What hope is there then for us, the Maori, when people are made blind by the blind; deaf by the deaf; and dumb by the dumb? Will we, the Maori of today, continue to listen complacently and accept these blatant lies knowing how our forefathers had fought and died to rectify the inconsistencies and grievances that European civilisation had thrust upon them? Will we continue to ignore those same inconsistencies and grievances that prevail today in places such as Otara and Ponsonby, and in all the penal institutions? Will we continue to deny the Maori of tomorrow his right to stand and say — “I am a Maori” — through our apathy and lack of courage to fight for the preservation of our Maori identity? It is easy to turn and run from a fight, and it is even easier to ignore it, but to stand firm and fight in the face of outnumbering odds, is the hardest thing of all. Such is the fight of the Maori of today. Pre-European Maori society, it is said, had reached its peak in all its technical and artistic forms, and politically it had developed as far as it could within its existing limitations and geographical isolation. But with the coming of the European, Maori society had initially entered on a period of rapid and eager adoption of Pakeha goods and ways. The Pakeha’s position then, had been well-defined — he was considered merely a handy thing to have around the village for whenever guns or blankets were needed. m However, as the Pakeha population steadily began to increase, overwhelming the Maori, a dramatic change began to take place. The Maori could feel his whole world being obliterated from under his feet, and his body being turned upside down against his will. The acceleration of the loss of Maori land to the Pakeha, crystallised all the grievances of the Maori people. It had inspired the rejection of Pakeha ways and led to the formation of formidable Maori protest groups, such as the King Movement, which through its cry for unity attempted to retain the land, for as " This is the worst way o f murdering. It is making slaves o f Henare Tomoana, M.P. Eastern Maori, on the Maori Wiremu Kingi had said to Governor Gore-Browne, at Waitara in these men .... We th ou gh t i t was intended to try them, Prisoners’ Bill, which was enforced to curb the successful 1859 . . . “These lands will not be given by us into . . . your hands, and approved: but the policy o f the government is like an lest we resemble the sea birds which perch upon the rock: when passive resistance movement at Parihaka. Many hundreds the tide flows the rock is covered by the sea, and the birds will eel. You look at it in the water, it seems quite still and of followers were imprisoned, w ithout trial, until there take flight, for they have no resting place.” straight, but directly you seize it, it \urves up, doubles was no room left in any N.Z. prison. Te Whiti Rongomai, And thus, because the grievances that our fore fathers had and twists round you, and covers you with slime. So this the founder of the movement, spent two years inside faced in their day, still exist today, then so too remains the potentiality of Maori protest. b ill has changed its character and doubles round us all. ” without trial. He Wahine, he whenua, e ngaro ai te tangata By women, by land, men are lost business of child-bearing. She accepts now, as she would have in pu'-Luropean society, her function as a female and servant And because she is so involved in being a mother, a mortgagee, and a Maori society is basically patriarchal — the male dominates pa t of the huge menial labour force; in coping with these realities, every positive aspect of a heavily structured, largely horticultural she will rarely if ever bother to be concerned with the new culture. Although laws, as we understand them, did not exist, feminist movement, which, it anything, she distrusts and discards people were governed by tapu, and upon this premiss of as pakeha, middle class, and irrelevant. However, such issues as superstitious fear rested the belief that women were the negative equal pay and child care she may consider, but overriding all is the and destructive element, the inferior, the passive. pressures, the realities, of the moment. Predictably, a woman was forbidden to participate in numerous So what of being Maori? I believe that a Maori woman would activities, but that which persists today is her right to stand upon a notice, or have it brought to her notice, the fact ot her ethnic marae, or tribal meeting place, and speak. Only two major tribes, origin long before she needs to classify her gender. Femaleness.il both of whom have particularly illustrious female forbears, Ngati we endure or celebrate it, we can all take for granted usually. And Kahungunu, and Ngati Porou, concede a woman this right. apai i from blatant examples of sexual discrimination, e.g., unequal Needless to say, modern society has brought some degree of pay and opportunity, we can generally cruise along comfortably emancipation — but to whom, and how? intough life on a cushioned dream of fashionably white and What use is suffrage to women who comprehend even less than obedient sublimation. If we are white. Not so easy if we are Maori. their pakeha sisters their right to put in power an alternative t onsciousness of being Maori is reviving. The Maori is beginning government? In 1893, when women were given voting rights in to review the validity, the justice of this present system, and this country, the feminists had to put up a fight to convince the question it. Factors such as the urban migration, the unrest of reformers that Maori women equally merited the privilege, despite youth, the inequitable enforcement of land-grabbing legislation, their inculpable ignorance of an invading life style. have caused a renaissance in Maori awareness. The elders, the That year, 1893, the vote for Maori .woman seemed an patriarchs, know all of this. We, as Maori females, can only hope irrelevance. This year, 1972, the situation has hardly changed. that they recognize the need, and the merit of our energy in this What good has the present system done to alleviate the pressures fight .... and not deny knowledge to half our people. That of being female alone is enough, and usually working confronting the modern Maori woman? What the present upsurge of racial consciousness must result in, class. She forms the major part of an unskilled and underpaid Within the rigidity of traditional Maori society, the Maori ultimately, is a purge of the white, male dominated power factory labour force; she must meet daily the economic demands woman, although of inferior status, nevertheless enjoyed an structure. Yet while, within our own ranks, we continue to see of raising a larger than average family, and supplementing her unchanging security. To a great extent, this continues in rural ourselves as gender beings, limiting ourselves to gender roles, then husband’s comparatively low income. More and more often she is areas throughout the country, even today. Should she have the upheaval we hope to cause will never even start. If half the setting up house in a new housing development, and coping with challenged or contravened patriarchal ruling, she became a legend, energy force is coping continuously with being the underprivileged the pressures of being away from the whanau — Maori extended or culture heroine, c.g. Hinemoa, who swam Lake Rotorua to her gender, then the. issue of being a distinctive race and people, with family — and in the nucleic family environment of a suburb. low-born lover Tutanekai, or Wairaka, who saved the sacred distinctive problems will be forever, and for the Pakeha, safely, Although she may not be within the locality of her kinship Mataatua canoe with the strength of a man, assumed by her cry obscured. “Kia WHAKATANE au i au!” thus naming that locality. group nevertheless she maintains contact — despite the insidiously Maori marriage laws, for a high born girl, were suffocating, and racist institutionalized efforts of the white power structure to usually political. Unconsulted, were she to disagree, her only undermine the guts of Maori unity, which is the communal family means of protest was suicide. Berys Heuer, in “Maori Women” group; and to reduce the focus of that kinship structure, the land. records such violent recourse was not uncommon. Thus, she is confronted by many situations. Being female, she Arawa Chiefs, 1907. Looking at the status of Maori women in New Zealand society can usually be sucked in by the demands of competitive white today, one can see she suffers a multiple dilemma. consumer society — advertising, the media, fashion and the You brought us your civilization, and you decimated our ranks with strange diseases and OLD MAN CHANTING IN THE DARK. stones for the oven? modern armaments. You supplied us with firearms, and when in the lust of war we had slain Where are the men of mettle? who shall reap are there old scores the succulent children whimpering almost half of the flower of our race (and a few left to settle? on the terraced hill-top? of yours), you punished us as rebels and when will the canoes leap confiscated our lands. You gave us the Bible and to the stab and kick you broke its precepts. You taught us ethics and the sea-wet flourish no more alas no more you had no scrupples in your transactions with of pointed paddles? no raw memory left us. You gave us alcohol and then punished us and w ill the sun play again of these gave us an evil name for using it. Our fathers nor bloody trophies. to the skip of muscles desired to be civilized, but because of your on curved backs bared only the fantail’s flip to cheeky war-like postures inconsistencies they abandoned your teaching and to the rain’s lash opposed it with their hearts’ blood. We the sea’s punch? and on the sand-hill to War! to War! wry wing fluting retrograded, and the gap between us widened. the bleached bones marrowless You have had to make up the ground lost by the bad example of your fathers: we have had to (From “ NO ORDINARY SUN” - poems by HONE Where are the proud lands overcome the distrust and suspicion in the hearts TUWHARE.) of ours and transmitted to us, ere we could once to subdue-----and women? Published by — where are the slaves BLACKWOOD AND JANET PAUL more take up the broken thread of progress. to gather wood for the fires Auckland and Hamilton 1964.