THE EXCLUSION OF MAORI BOYS FROM THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12608, 24 June 1904, Page 6

THE EXCLUSION OF MAORI BOYS FROM THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOE. : ■"fJiM jsi; •Sir,—l ww surprised J and grieved ||J1 rr(>ading"ift tie issue of;your paper of 3 eirtor- ' day, a letter . signed I "By j a 'Maori f Boy wbujigaj •' does i not. seek admittance •• to the Qranunir|& ; School." If reference had not been made foS an artiel-s in your paper of a prlorr : difeSiiffl should have thought the Maori boy made a mistake. ;i »* Permit ' me to' call theaffijaK ; tention of Bishop : Neligan'; and i the . clergy crt- .»•£ the Anglican Church,'. as well; as ofttoWftNgfl tian ladies' who toiled so lougaadenorgetif«|!|ij| ally to raise funds fop founding the school tor. Maori girls, to the boy's complaint. Surely. wo - are not prepared ; for|.the|i»trodncjlftMß,^^ 'into Maoriana iof $ the un-Christian, practices pursued in Russia towards the lone j suffering Jews and their families by the RjlMB curator of the Holy, Synod of • the OrthodoilM Church, M. Pobedonostaeff, and his the.? Government tdiinovito,j where respect able Jewish families have ,to pay to < these fin power: to obtain admission .'JHpjfl their children to the public schools,' in wlwfeKfflj they carry off nearly all the school priw#. ;}'j Maori children have as good a right for jfc||i|igj| mission'into our; public schools , as - those Maovianians, as ' • those schools! have boBR '4 mainly established and supported by i*e*eßUW!f||| derived from lands of whmh the Maoris MjJfeJjS been deprived, by j fraud 'or violence. TMfA'l Treaty of Waitangi is still in full according to the law of nations; the have ; honourably - performed their.; part A' ,'pj and we, the Anglican nation. Lave not. Kstlgfl J mating the value of the lands of MaorianaJ^^M Is per acre'■ (a very low price)," Ilia Ahgb« , «nV '-s J nation stands'indebted to the Maori naWAJHB ■ parties Ito " the Treaty; of Waitangi, V* sum of £3,328,000, from which may be droSafl ducted whatever sums of money. the VMatinHraH have received, from the National ment during the lingering course of 64- yjeirt. It is the duty of ail' honest men who'*"™ fag to.: wipe | off t the disgrace attaching J to. out ~ national character for our breach $ 1 thjSII treaty, to endeavour by ail lawful ' mean' if obtain the balance of the . long-pending; Mn count for the Maoris, a brave, goaero'us,; MWamß sympathising; face^-I: am, etc., ■ ttfhfl **• Sixgx-wow EocHewi96ViS™ ' Manukftn Ivoad, June 21* ■ yJMI'