Show U. U S. S By HEATHER NAPIER NAPH R American Field Service ice Exchange Student From New Zealand After having come in contact with some of oC the racial pro pro- problems problems as well wen as mixing in integration integration in in- and segregation and having studied about the relationships relationships rela rein with the Negro Indian and the Jew in American Americ m problems pro I shall tell ten about the New Zealand relationship between be between be be- tween our two main r races the Maori and the white while pcr person on Out of oC our two and third one million population only are of oC Maori descent but it Il W was this Polynesian race who l first inhabited the country in the century coming from Tahiti and Hawaii When the white whiteman whiteman whiteman man came carne in the 18 he unfaIrly unfairly unfairly un un- un- un fairly look took large chunks of this i land and from Irom the Maori for lor a mere handful of or cigars or guns These seemed a great luxury to the f Maori at the time since he had only known a primitive life of oC hunting wild animals and fishing fishI fishIng fish- fish I Ing for lor food lood Maori wars formed the history of the following fifty years only with the result of the Maori be be- ing ine- unjustly treated The out outnumbering outnumbering outnumbering numbering whites simply took all the land they needed Incidentally Inci dentally the word Is Isone Isone Isone one of oC the few Maori words in common usage among the Euro Europeans meaning a white per per- son Today New Zealand is said to have h social relationships bee between be be- tween the two races of oC the best standing in the world however this is not in my opinion per per- feet lect A Maori 1 girl or bo boy is freeto free tree freeto j to attend an any school he may desire At my old school Ota- Ota College we had numerous Maori 1 students I can recall one Maori Girls' Girls College in AUCkland Auckland Auck Auck- land City called Queen Victoria which has a fine reputation and record and is quite expensive to attend Each year at our annual annual annual an an- nual music festival a group of oC this school is invited to sing a bracket of songs led and this is usually the high highlight highlight highlight light of the evening with the therace therace therace race as a whole is noted oCr this ability as well welt as hand movements and dancing often accompanying their songs Most of oC our Maori population dwell in the north island creat creat- I ing a great tourist attraction I at miles south of oC I Auckland Here the thela Maori la r dresses dresses dres dres- ses traditionally in his piu piu reed recd skirt and many Maori I I and meeting houses lave cave been preserved This as aswell aswell I well as the natural hot mud pools and geysers greatly impress impress im press the tourist |