MAORI WELFARE
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. An important conference affecting the welfare of Maoris was held at Pakipaki last evening. Sir A. T. Ngata was present. Discussion took place on Maori scholarships, it being pointed out that the present method of allocating scholarships to Maori students was not. sufficiently distributed over the whole of the Maori population. It was proposed that in lieu of the present method, the Education Department be asked to allocate a stated number of Maori scholarships to defined areas. Maori Land Board areas, it was suggested, would be a, suitable way of distributing these .scholarships, so that every tribe would benefit equally. It was also resolved to ask the Government thai; the scheme of household schools lie extended to Maoris, as there were many districts where Maoris were living on their own individual lands away in the hackbloeks, and lon far from established schools. A resolution was also passed convoying the thanks of the Maoris to the New Zealand University for the introduction of the Maori language as a pass subject for B.A. and B.Sc. degrees.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16620, 10 April 1928, Page 11
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186MAORI WELFARE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16620, 10 April 1928, Page 11
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