Sir-I’m thinking R. L. Meek will be regretting his recently published emotional outburst. So! He imagines it more becoming for one of his mental calibre to retire into the rare atmosphere of University precincts, than to live a use ful life among intellectual, nonentities. Maybe he expects to find the short rations in England morally uplifting, or. does he expect to live entirely on mental food? The same mail brought a jubilant letter from a contemporary of R. L. Meek, who has been living in England since VE Day. He has made many pleasant contacts there and been offered lucrative employment, but his theme song.is, "I’m coming home"--home to New Zealand, the only country where the dead hand of social caste and pretension is not dominant. I rejoice in his return as much as I resent R. L. Méek’s disavowal of his homeland and of his responsibilities to the land of his birth. To me, the organisation of a Community Centre at Nee
Nae or at Whatuwhiwhi is of far greater value than the training of another economist in England.
S.J.
M.
(Whatuwhiwhi).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 5
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