GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
Problems Of Educating Residents’ Children (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 2. The Auckland Education Board feels that children of pioneer families, some of whom live in nikau whares, on Great Barrier Island are not getting a proper education. The problems facing the parents and children as they carve a living out of the bush are described in a confidential report to the board, some details of which were released today. On October 30, a party from the Education Board found 14 pupils attending Tryphena East School, but within a radius of 11 miles and a half were 28 children of school age learning through correspondence, as they could not get to the school because of bad roads. The roads are being improved by the Ministry of Works. Describing conditions at some of the homes, the report told of a family living in a nikau whare of two rooms with only one window and one door. “The family is supremely optimistic that it will make a success of the farm and eventually build a new home,” the report says.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 19
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