A OUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 27

A QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL.

SCHOOL. FOR MAORI GIRLS. A movement is on foot -to perpetuate tba memoiy of the late Queen Victoria by the estahhshm°nt of a school for Maori girls ar Auckland. The idea is that the school sh"uld bo on -rviouhat similar lines to that whvh i)9-> 1 cc.i doing e\celVrjt woik at H.ilcarera, Napier, but with a more ex t> j rdel scope. The idea was i\ . irmly taken up by the Anglican Synod when it met a!. NjpiPi", and aTioi'g a number ot resolutions ljr-ve'l by that hod}' vas th n following: — " Tl p c'aiw of or.i Ma< ri iistcis upon us fmC iri«tii\'i edu. iti'in ij a v e ry shonr and \i ,r, r urs;pn" n-ip. fucce--fi.il efforts lune been made in \miov.s centres 'or the education ol the boy-, but compaiatively little has been dona ioi tho prls It is ot litile useevpeciing a higher moral nid ppiritual tone m the Maoii kaingjs it tho women ot" tho future aie left without that elevating influence which only Christian education can. supply." Auckland has naturally been chosen as the mo 4 suitable town 111 which to have the f-chool, on account of us beinc; the centre of a largo Maori population.* If, is- proposed that the -elieme shall be a colonial rather than a local one, and in order to properly equip such an establishment steps are being taken to raise the sum ot £10,000 l.y contribution. Alrpadv £700 ha--, been promised about Hawke'p Bay and Auckland, and when £1200 has been collected a start vill bo Irvine vitli the work. Publicity^ has be°n gn en to the aft'air by means, of circular, and the Rev. V. A. Bennett. Nathe ii.i-->ionary at Tnianaki, will \i^it Dvnedir at the end of the prp^ent week and gi 1 « sdclre^es on the subject. s