TE AUTE TRUST COMMISSION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 12

TE AUTE TRUST COMMISSION.

ABCHDEAOON WILLIAMS'! EVIDENCE.

(fRISS ASBOCIATIOH TJtLEGRAJf.),,^^ 1 NAPIER, ILny jm;-' , * ' "jj At the sitting of the To Auto tlMjO Commission "to-day, Archdeacon *Wj»!# liams said ho'did not think enyiiiajjj|§ ■had been done more to break domi'tiM&f lxarriera' between tlio two races $Wp the education of the young Maori ptigp plo at Te Auto and Hukarere. ' Hβ fdj(ori that eeoing the β-sswttrnce' given Europeans with, regjard to fhat they should shw s generous nIK and Allow the natirce to here bingio institutions for higher edqc»iip*|S| flhiiost, if not entirely, to Ho thought when the natives lefb Rciliool that-, generally, ivad dciio very - well, tlwugh there-hMiS] been dieaxtpomtments. Their tion did not keep them iram useful pureuite. It was rajidi to carry on form work with edw»l)i| Miiori youths than wit3i once. He did not think tfoe yxap&fM was suitable for dairy farming, bot'jbt(|| had always expressed hei»_ retire from occupation if the U'mtetiiff' thought they could make better -'MM of the estate. He wes quite take the direction of the the matter of tectznical and* meniiiliS instruction. He bad 6paofc' £10,000 of his priveto mon<?y ,«»i'W|||| . Cai:on k>f AackJead," , hae been oonnectod #itih St. School and Quoen Victoria Maori giTle for some yoars, earn ■ WFB& trusts iti oon-nection with these «bOM|l|f wero different to tliat of Tβ Ante. 'ViMsiu .St. Stephen's school at r dii£l>rial training was obligatory, i&mm object' being that boys should be tuwm end then sent back ( to their own Ito (iidmivour to rai'w? their own jpooflfc-Kj| At iSt. it was recognised fcjff?-* To Auto TO.s tiho plaoa to eond aeMwi|b to who ehowod a special aptitode -,*»?S receive a tpimd secondary edoaetioifcp