TO HELP THE MAORIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 187, 7 August 1913, Page 8

TO HELP THE MAORIS.

■I ■ ' — "^— TRIBUTE TO VICTORIA SCHOOL c THE GOSPEL OF SELF-HELP. , At the annual meeting of the Qnecn < Victoria Association yesterday afternoon J Canon Mac Murray, in speaking on the t reports, paid a high tribute to tho work 'j of the Association, and its school, in tho 1 direction of elevating the native nice. He , said that he had been in close touch with i tho Victoria School from the. beginning, ! and it was his deliberate judgment, after j more than ten years' experience, that ho } hardly knew any institution in Auckland 1 that was wanted more, or was fulfilling { its work better within Its limited means, J than the Victoria school. It was tho very spring of the mission work among si the Maoris. Ho knew the girls, tho J places from which they came, the places { they went to.nnd their influence in those i villages, and he considered that tho Vie- I torla school was doing a renmrkablo * work In the elovating of the Maori. It would be a disaster if tho institution 1 ceased to lie vigorous and nourishing. I Commenting on tho report of tho lady J superintendent, that there were now ten i girls in tho school whoso parents wero paying wholly, or in part, for their cdv- J cation and maintenance, Canon Mac- j ■Murray said that ho regarded that ns a i very important advance Thoro wcro n many (Maoris who wcro ablo to pny J' wholly, or in part, for fhoir girls* ednca- [, tlon, and ho bclioved that they would valno tbo scrvlco much more highly If j they paid for it. Tho snmo applied to E tho maintenance of tho Maori ministry, v It was the duty of thoso who were (' assisting the Maoris to encourage tho f, latter to contribute to these things, It was not sufficient merely to find tho <i money to he used for tho benefit of the jj Maori, but the latter should ho taught S to help themselves nnd to pay, as far as j,j, they could for tho things intended to ft benefit them. It was good for tho Maori {] to be trained that way, in that it pro- jj vided a needed moral exercise.