A vote of ,£2900 has been made by the Education Department in aid Of the erection of another standard school in Masterton. "The. Maori met death calmly, end had no dread of the hereafter,; for his mind had not been terrorised for long, weary centuries by visions of- burning lakes, brimstone, and otlied unpleasant things. The power or influence of the lower orders of tohunga was baleful in some ways, but they had riot graspSi sufficient power to enable them to institute any system of religious persecution; in: fact that horror pertains to a higher order of civilisation."—Mr. Elsdbn Best.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 3
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