Vision Splendid
A QUIET revolution, That most of us know nothing of, is taking place in our world-part of that even greater revolution, the adaptation of the Maori race to the European way of life. At the 1939 Conference of Young Maori leaders, women attended merely as observers: a similar conference this year found one in four of those leaders a woman. In Point of View (YAs) three Maori women, fluent, serious and informed, spoke with understanding and vision of the problems of their people and held an illuminating discussion of the part women play in facing and_solving those problems. The speakers in the discussion acknowledged that Maori women have adapted themselves to
change more easily than have their men. They spoke of the difference between the two cultures and of where the Maori could teach the European; of Maori leadership on the marae and in the community beyond it; of how traditional values must not be lost though changes come. An impressive introduction to some of the Maori leaders of today (and even more illuminating perhaps because the speakers were women), this dis‘cussion left us aware of the surging vitality in Maori affairs, and from this glimpse of the vision that inspires their young leaders we could take heart and pride in the future of New Zealand as a whole,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 17
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221Vision Splendid New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 17
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