THE MAORI OF TO-DAY.
We meet him attending High Schools and Univers ties, entering professions and taking degrees side by side with our sons and brothers. We go into the studios of artists and find, youns Maori ladies expressing in the media of modern art the sense of colour and of power inherited from the sea-rov-ing ancestors whose carved ani painted canoes clave the great sea oi Kiwa. Everywhere we find the Maori of to-day oared for and considered, if not always with wisdom, yet always with' — so far as legisZatdon is conI eerned — the best intentions. In the li?ld of education his wants increase. At the beginning of the year 1902 Maori schools of various kinds numbered 99 ; the close of the same year saw 10"? schoo.s in working order, four of which were boarding schools. Ihe principal institutions are Te Aute College (Hawke's Bay), St. Stephen's (Auckland), St. Joseph's Convent (Napier), and "Hukarere" (Napier). These are made use of as boarding schools for children who have distinguished themselves at the native village schools. Four other schools out of the 107 be'ong to religious bodies who havf requested the Educational Department to examine and inspect them
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 34 (Supplement)
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197THE MAORI OF TO-DAY. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 34 (Supplement)
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