TE AUTE COMMISSION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 5

TE AUTE COMMISSION.

PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, May 31. The Te Ante Trust Commission sat here to-day, and took the evidence ol .Messrs. J. 11. Popp, ex-lnspector ol -sative Schools, and G. Hoghen, Inspector-General ot Schools. Mr. Pope gave his opinion that although in the initial stages ot study there might ho an advantage with children of Europeans, due to what might be t rmed ancestral aptitude, yet when the stiffness, so to speak, wore off there was no difference* between till* Maori and European. It had becont;* apparent to witness and others that not every Maori hov was fitted to become a succe- nl University mail leehnie.il aiu manual instruction should he give . Mr. Hoghen snul ilia! one did not blame the Te Ante College authorities f ()1 - being behind the times since th ■ whole system ol education had 'change:! in the las. twenty-five years, and i: would probably change wholly again during the next twenty-five years. The time had come when there should he a radical change at Te Ante. There should he no attempt made to "put new wine into old hoti les. ’