The motions affirmed that N.Z.U.S.A. "strongly protests at the decision of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union to exclude Maori players on racial grounds from selection for the All Black team to tour South Africa in 1960, and strongly urges them to reconsider their decision".

"That the N.Z.U.S.A., whose membership includes Maori, Pakeha and Asian students, affirms its belief in the principle of racial equality, and considers that, if Maori players are not to be eligible for the All Black team to tour South Africa and, if selected, cannot be assured of equal treatment while on tour, the tour should be abandoned."

C.A.C. Initiative

A policy statement, drafted by Lincoln College and adopted by N.Z.U.S.A. said in part:

". . . The knowledge of racial conditions in South Africa and the consequent desire to protect the Maori players who might have been selected from unpleasant experiences . . . are not ground for the departure from the principle of racial equality. The onus must be left with South Africa, and if Maori players cannot be accepted or treated alike with Pakeha players, then the tour should be abandoned.

Courtesy no Argument

". . . This is less a matter of trying to interfere with the internal affairs of South Africa than of upholding racial equality here in New Zealand. Nor can it be validly argued that New Zealand should, out of courtesy, accept the invitation to send an All Black team. To accept ... an invitation with implied (even if self-imposed) restrictions on New Zealand's right to select its national representative team on merit alone ... is to apply racial discrimination in our own country and this cannot be tolerated."

Multi-racial Community

"The New Zealand student community is multi-racial . . . New Zealand students have welcomed in their midst Colombo Plan and other students from South East Asia, the South Pacific, and from as far afield as the West Indies, and they are valued and respected members of the student community."

N.Z.U.S.A. "from both a national and an International viewpoint . . . takes its stand, along with so many other organisations and individuals, in a protest against racial discrimination in the selection of the All Black team to tour South Africa in 1960, and calls upon the New Zealand Rugby Football Union to reverse its decision."

The resolutions passed, and the policy statement are to be sent to the Members of Parliament concerned with Maori Affairs, the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, International Student Headquarters, and the National Union of South African Students.

Copies will also be sent to the New Zealand University Rugby Football Union, and the University Rugby football clubs, along with the request that they dis-associate themselves from the N.Z.R.F.U.