NORTHERN EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 24 February 1904, Page 5

NORTHERN EDUCATION.

MR FRANK TATE WELL SATISFIED

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent)

WELLINGTON, this day

Mr Frank Tale, director of <»ducatiou in Victoria, who has returnecl to Wellington after a visit to Auckland and Northern towns, was struck with the attention paid to lighting and seating accommodation in the more recently built schools in Wanganui and Auckland districts. He considers the work done in the schools which he visited in Auckland of good character, comparing very favourably with that done hi Victoria. He particularly admired the ingenuity displayed by the Board's architect in the furnishing and fitting of the more recently built schools. Mr Tate accords praise to the instruction given in the native schools of Rotorua district, although, of course, the children are of more advanced ages than children in corresponding standards in Victoria, lie, however, asse.rts that the work done in such subjects as writing and drawing is superior to that which has obtained vi his own colony. The painstaUing way in which articulation and enunciation are taught and supervised during the process of instructing Maori children to read and speak English impressed him most particularly. The reading of the Maori children was. he thought, excellent in that respect.