NATIVES AND EDUCATION

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5582, 10 September 1920, Page 5

NATIVES AND EDUCATION

\TTEN DANCE IN SOME DISTRICTS UNSATISFACTORA. PROBLEM OF MAORI ITCH. WELLINGTON. Sept. 9. There were 11!) Native village in operation last year, all except two be in"' in the North Island. . there me in addition, five Native mission schools and Maori scholars are attending 531 nnhlie schools. There ale ten Natne boardill" sclioools affordiug secondary edneation to Maoris. There have been small increases in all the figmes rela in" to numbers, average attendance and regular attendance. Over 5000 Native children attend the public schools and the total number of Maori children receivin-' primary education is !h3O. Ln the Auckland district the at tend mice of IM-vnri children is still fai turn ■ ail factory—in some cases they openly an successfully defy the provisions of the compulsory attendances clauses of the Act witli 'the result that absence from ~c h ool is both frequent and piolonged. This not only retards. their I)-, gross but interferes , very seriously w ith the normal advance of other school muK In some cases the presence if , itcb instinctively creates in the minds of both' teacher and c 2 m “4J ec L v >bablv mn’iianee to the Araoii, .-ml I- * . * ni it orul thorough insr.pction by in reviilai and rnoiou n . , ~ 'the Health Department oi b> the iJt pai tment’s school medical omcei s. Special.