Decline Tour, Say Maoris
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 6. A meeting of Maoris in Wellington called on the New Zealand Rugby Union to decline the invitation to send the All Blacks to South Africa in 1967. The meeting passed this resolution: “That this large and representative meeting of Te Ika-a-Maui district jeneuciaries of the Ngaitahu Maori Trust Board has noted with satisfaction the Prime Minister’s statement against the selection of a representative Rugby team, which excludes Maoris because of their colour and his categorical assertion that New Zealand cannot be represented by a group chosen on racial lines. It has also noted that the South African Government has just as categorically asserted that it will not approve of the inclusion of Maoris in any team to tour South Africa. It therefore calls on the New Zealand Rugby Union to decline any invitation to send a team to tour South Africa in 1967 and to thereby indicate its readiness to follow the lead of its own head of state rather than to accept the apartheid dictates of South Africa.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 15
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179Decline Tour, Say Maoris Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 15
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