CONFERENCE OF NATIVE SCHOOLTEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11854, 4 January 1902, Page 7

CONFERENCE OF NATIVE SCHOOLTEACHERS.

REPRESENTATIVES from native schools in at parts of the province of Auckland met yester day in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms to discuss vari ous matters relating to their schools, am more particularly a new code of regulation! to be submitted for consideration to tin Minister for Education. The president (Mr McGavin, of Tokomaru : Bay) was in the chair. > In; the courso of some introductory remarks, he referred to the indirect coin pi i ment • paid to - the« native schools teaching bj the official enumerator of , the Maori census who stated • in"' his ' report T that : the ■■ Maoris near Auckland were not nearly so advancec in : civilisation j as; the, natives further nortl in places '"where there are ':, Maori schools Near - Auckland '• there are no such schools Mr. McGavin also remarked upon the change in the character -of the teaching that hat taken place during .>. the last ;' year. Englisl is now taught in nearly all the schools bj means of a modification of the system known as Gouin's method. Hand work ha: also : been largely introduced. There is i carefully graduated- system leading frou mat-plaiting and easy plasticine work tc cane-weaving and ' carton wark. and in somi schools to carpentering and saddlery. The report and balance-sheet, read by Mr. C. H Brown, of Waimana. showed the finances t< be in a satisfactory:• state. ■■■•■ The secretarj was instructed to forward letters of condo lence to the families of two deceased teachers —Mr. Levert, of To Kaha, and Mr. Bone, o: Tikitiki. -.' -•■ ■■ .■ ■ ■.. ._, _ ■ „ A cheque far £3 was sent to Mrs. C. H. Brown,-with which to purchase a keepsake in' token of the gratitude 1 felt by the assqcia tion for her work in its behalf for the last three years. ■■ .■■■■■■;. ■ ■ '■■■ ■■■■.■■■■ ' "''■■"■