KUPE’S KORERO.

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1934, Page 6

KUPE’S KORERO.

WHAT OF THE FUTURE? CHILDREN WHO HAVE WON FAME. Dear Northlanders, — Since delivering my harangue to warriors, urging them to avail themselves of the “Advocate’s” generous offer of a free scholarship to the writer of a newspaper report, I have thought must' about the debt the world owes to boys and girls. Many great men, through starting their work at an early age, have benefited mankind beyond the dreams of ordinary men. The twelve-year-old boy who made sundials, windmills, water clocks and moving carriages, was to become Sir Isaac Newton, the renowned scientist. Known to all who have visited London —and to many who have not—as the designer of Saint Paul’s Cathedral and the most famous architect of his time, Sir Christopher Wren played with astronomical instruments when he was a little boy, and at thirteen invented a small engine. Thomas Moore, the much-loved Dish poet, had his first sonnet published when he was fourteen. England’s famous boy poet, Thomas Chatterton, died when he was only eighteen, but had commenced writing poems at the age of eleven. Gloria Rawlinson, a little Aucklander, has already many admirers because of a book of poems that she has published; she is sixteen years old. Recently Philip Hargreaves visited New Zealand, and, though only twelve, delighted many music lovers with his wonderful piano playing. Although so accomplished at his art, Philip is just an ordinary boy in other ways, and just now his great desire is to become a boy scout. It is a wise plan to decide quite early in life what you want to do when you grow up. Not always can your dreams come true, but if we talk things over with mother and father, it is often possible to so arrange matters that we receive a suitable training for the sort of work we hope to do when school days are past. I hear that the inspectors are already busy in some of our schools, and I do hope that you all do well in your examinations. *" Best wishes to you all. KUPE. Rangatira, Northland Tribe.