NATIVE SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 196, 13 May 1908, Page 9

NATIVE SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

HOiN G 1 OWLDS'S MSIT ; Both primary and secondary\Nativo'schools liavo. now. recoived careful irisptfc'tmn'from' tho Minister for Education (Mo; Hon; G.;F6wlds')'. Yesterday .the; Minister' retufn«l ; ''from'- the Hawko's Bay, where To:'Aut'e (boys) and Hukorero and' Schools.;- Theso secondai^scfiools; filled by pupils, who at the primary schools. ; ,v?.;.\i- . This iwas the : first '"w-hielr' tho: Minister had crossed now famous To Auto iustitution',' ajma'.'nister pf many-Maori, men in tlio Dominion iii<m! in responsible positions, aii'd otli'ers, : .urifoit-ii-nately, who have reveSft^d' t 2|iS* I, U|^l]t' i jji{idleness. ■'. 'Mr. Eo'wlds ■ degcriWl" theCollege, as a place simat^ 7 .'Jnil with charming grounds"''! The .biiildings/ however, were old, and decayed, and would at ..an -early date. -A"-'-very -fino 'spirit. .'was evident in all branches of.-work, and he was ; pleased it was taking a more practical fofrm than formerly.- A. been built, plainly by tho boys, and had been equipped with benches -and tools. Oh. the whole, tho school. was.._d,oing .excellent, work. Tho only grounds of critioisnrat' all would- bo, porhaps,, that the oducatiou;-was ;a ; :littlo;,t-oo classical. ■ • . At tlio two girls' colleges, which .are a little out of Napier, done," tioii. Tho girls .were neat,.: graceful in.. their demeanour..V"%erytliii)g was . being, done ,to indiico; tho . scholars inbt to'return' to the' old ways. ...Gijla i/ wer;e'':being trained as, nurses, and {in the {Hospital. >vero .some_who wore.turning out"splendidly.: The Minister proposed {in.; tlio future to utiliso .their services, froni.»tini6,,to.' timo in district's; in tlio, of {.tjio-sp Natives whom it was itifficult. : for ..doctors- to reach. . .They would bpi'uiuler-'.thb{{supei;in-tondency of wlnto At ..To .Arirpaj.' on tho East Coast,^tho. Natives had raised a considerable suni of Dioney,for-.the'establish-ment of a nursing hostel.. This, institution, said Mr. Fowlds, will be Tun, by Natives, with a European nurso' to superintend 'and instruct. In tho schools -on tho East Coast were numbers of excellent ■ Maori * teachers, female and male, „whp had bqcni trainod in these secondary schools. ■