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...Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher for 17 years in Maori schools (but a grandmother rather than a spinster), Novelist Ashton-Warner endowed her heroine with an extraordinary gift for handling young Maori minds in conflict with civilization. Dropping the fictional cloak, she has now expounded her singular methods in Teacher. Published this week (Simon & Schuster; $5), it may well be the year's best book on education...
...playing world. Perennial challenger for the title is the Union of South Africa's all-white Springbok team. The Springboks journeyed to New Zealand in 1956, cheerfully played-and were soundly beaten-by the All-Blacks, as New Zealand's national team composed of both whites and Maoris is ironically called. This year the All-Blacks are due to play the Springboks in South Africa. When New Zealand's Rugby Union announced that, to spare Maori players embarrassment from apartheid policies, only white members of the All-Blacks would make the trip, all New Zealand was aroused...
Explicit Equality. But about that time a group of mission-educated Maoris formed the Young Maori party, led by Apirana Ngata, later to be knighted by King George V. Ngata's land reforms contributed to a spectacular Maori comeback that continues to the present day. The Maori population tripled within 60 years...
...Maori soldiers distinguished themselves in two world wars, and the long list of able Maoris in the professions and public life ranges from sometime Yale Anthropologist Sir Peter Buck to Oxford-educated Charles Bennett, New Zealand's current envoy to Malaya. By nature a friendly, winning and athletic people, the Maoris, in the process of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, so won the affection and respect of New Zealand whites that equality is not only explicit in law but exists in fact...
Isolated examples of discrimination do crop up. A year ago when a hotel manager near Papakura refused to serve a beer to a Maori, he was not only soundly criticized in the nation's press but got a stiff reprimand from the hotel-chain owner, Sir Ernest Davis. Last week, caught between his near-fanatical devotion to rugby and what amounts to a national dishonor if Maori footballers are excluded, New Zealand's man-in-the-street was making his choice plain: no Maoris, no match...