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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 16. 12th July 1973

Jones out of Context?

Jones out of Context?

Dear Roger,

My first reaction on viewing the publication of your interview with me was one of surprise at the absence of hostile editorial comment.

Further reading, however, disappoints and shows that you have achieved the same expected end in a somewhat more devious manner.

I wonder how many of your readers will pick the anomolies in the article, and I refer, of course to the fact that my remarks regarding Maoris and shooting of trespassers have been published in bold type boxed captions, but with out being included in the text of the article so that they may be seen in their actual context.

As you know, the subject under discussion which brought about my remarks on Maoris was the degree of boredom of Salient material and we were thumbing through copies when we encountered reference to an attack on Professor Eysenck at an address in London.

I then told you that I had corresponded with Eysenck on the relationship of Catholicism to Irish genetic patterns and from that we launched into a discussion on New Zealand racial patterns in which I claimed that the propagation of Maoritunga (sic) was a rationalisation for Maori failure in European society and that Polynesian aspirations were, in my view, largely similar to European. I contrasted NZ Samoan success in this regard to NZ Maori failure. If anything, your out of context quotations achieved an opposite effect of the points I made and as such this was dishonest reporting.

As I shall not be here to defend myself against attacks I trust you will publish this letter in its entirety.

Best wishes regardless

R.E. Jones