HUKARERE MAORI GIRLS' SCHOOL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 274, 23 October 1912, Page 2

HUKARERE MAORI GIRLS' SCHOOL.

OI’EMNt. UI.RLMONY I The Hukarere Maori < lirla' Sehoo], Nape r. v m uim.’dh opened yesterday. There was n l.ii’m and ri pri’M’iit a* ivc al 1 ciidan. e. ami amimg-i the .L rt.\ p,. ent • >h* Un* Bishop of U/ie/pit (the Right Rev. I Dr. Averill), the li udi Rev. Bishop I\\ liluoil'-. rvj (l I, ■;<<■( i.limUloi k and pi. M. W id'ani',, Canon Mayne, Eccles and Tuke. (lie Rev. I/'. A. ! B. iiiwit. j Ai l ■ a inert leiigious service, ! the Bishop v! ft /iinpii addressed jllm gat hiring. Ei ti/e course of I; a ji <’ mirk ; i ''i- b: tu p rd that in tie' I m/.i I'.ukarorc .he hoped for an even g’ i oti ' ■ i l.< v . ; indi’i'in'.’ mid u--e hmue-s io 11 -r ■ Vasii riu-e There I ~[ ; }i< 1 ,'i■'< *■ ■■' could I lock b:u/k to ft/c uDi” i t liit" I>eeinI oiiig oi the oh.l school, who had lovi </d u , cin-rmlii d n . rmd prayed for In m d u V... Lilt /. "U,I il that liter I P'V'-m.t ’ m.i'du be slightly trng’-d j Willi gru. t. 'iiii .-i’ lien 1 also some f who could !<:/'!■. with joy on the Io! I Huk : i'( ‘ fti-lu < ii, •- 1 liei'ic >t was i that limy b.:;:i '.mimed llie ui'St lespiell.i of tlicir hvcs. Many i;t the vlergy aim e<mld look back with (b.uiklulm’ss to llif old school on account ot’ the numbers of people living in ihct’’ di",i .i< < , idiii v,eic hi Die : ciii'./l and who were now living usetid Christian lives, llriv in,", rifeiiud io the disastrous lire in the old school, the Bishop said that" there was a silver lining to every cloud, and tin? 'dlvir lining to Ilu ir particular child vias to be found in the new Hukareve behool. Tiie Mami pci pie should indeed be thankful to the trustees for the temporary m-lu ol and hr the new building, which, he believed, would be of fi i n gre'tiler benefit to the Maori people. They owed also a deep debt gritimde for the prim try mV,’ve schools m the Dominion. Continuing, Dr. Averill pointed out that •!i UK i'.i si’lioe.ls were net sufiiriint, and such schools as Ilukarere wire nec( s-,ar.v for tin* higher e<lueatioii. He thought that, the Goi ininunt was in rtectly right in m-.-isting that tl.e native race should be taught the English language, as tin y must all realise llmi in a eom-p.-irat i voly short time the two races imist l/w merged together, and it would (lieu ho if advantage to the Maori to- br able io worthily take hs pi.wr .'doiigside I'm? pakeha. He ci Md mt h<lp dunking that m the near future the ’■pecud Native State Department would have to cease, v hen the liaon and the pakeha l iron id I.a v e one (innuon law and bi' [ iilk'w citizens of the Dominion, If I tins were to me so it. Mould be neces:.ai’,v for the Maoris to have the training given in such schools as Hukarere and Te Ante. The Maoris must he prepared to realise the two things which had made the pakehareligion and work. A ci licet ion in aid of the building fund was taken up and realised £139 16 I. of which amount £lO7 0 6 was contributed by Macris.

A viry mien. st mg address was a Iso delivered by Mr. W. W. Bird, Inspect i r ci Native Schools. He said there were no institutions specially established by the State for the purpose of providing secondary training for .Maori girls, and as the kind of training necessary for them is essentially different from that reqv.ircd in the ease of European girls the syllabus of instruction in vogue in the European secondary and high schools is more or less unsuitable for M; icr i s. The Gove r n m e 111 th er c - fore has recoiirse to such institutions as Hukarere, and provides a number of fret' places, each of the value ot th ! per annum and tenable for two years. for girls who have reached tn ide- primary school a definite standard of attendance. In idle ease of Jhikrii re the number of Governin'. f)’ jtbievs Ilins available is iwen;\ five, am- the maximum amount or G<amsmrat subsidy to this institui.’i n iii.'i.v 10.-ieh .‘.'Poo per annum, a<cording to the number of scholarships current. In ecnsuleration of till:.; a.s.-istancc it is provided 'that, dm :.-ehv..-l shall bo subject to inspection and muiuviHm by the department, am! it has fallen to him, as in* ncclor of native schools, to carry o;o these dmhs. His connect ion wi >i native school work lias now exlemlid over period of twelve ynrs ami in thiU time he bail had many ..ppormiiit ies id - seeing not only the v iwk cl’ the school in Ihe scitmd itself, lull also the effect of it:; work amongst the Maori people in all parts <i‘ New Zealand. And he I could say he wm, proud to be assn-

ei-t! cd. in however hinn’de a manner, weh Hukarcre scliiod. cu account, of 11 ' . ole work in which it is on t,.u< d I'-imt-ly, id ccmplel-inR the work ol ( <li;ctl ing the girls of the Maori race mill ■;< finally preparing tin io tn fulfil the ideal which the iKitivo di <■[, ■-t stern has for its aim - 1 11 i li 'it e a wh< ]|y uni tdoretl but highly mt nt race so as to bring them into i’ l > wit!) our European ci*.lisni ion. Tiio 'i ,i< , . were subsequently shown c>v<r t lie building’.