NEW SCHOOL PROPOSED.
INSTRUCTION IN FARMING.
MAORI GIVES 20 ACRES
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
GISBORNE, Thursday.
A district high school, at which special attention will be given to instruction in dairying and sheep-raising, is to be established at Tikitiki, in the Waiapu Valley.
Mr. Neho Kopuka, a local chief, has offered to give 20 acres of land for the school.
The erection of such a school had been recommended hy Mr. T. B. Strong, Director of Education, who recently inspected the native schools in the valley, and "who was impressed with their proximity to one another and with the large number of children attending. The question of locality of the new building was left to the tribe to settle.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 13
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