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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 6

"In my opinion some provision should he made for the regular examination of Maori children by a competent nurse for evidence of malnutrition, skin disease and respiratory troubles," said' Dr. IT. C. Tod, in giving evidence at the inquest on a Maori baby, who died at Fencourc, near Cambridge, on August 13. The coroner added that he hoped' that something would Ik; done in (lie near future |o remedy the present unsatisfactory state of affairs in the matter of silliness among native children.

An opinion that native schools in tho llawke's Bay district were as often as not cleaner, than the European schools was expressed by Mr. T. A. Morland, senior inspector to the Hawke's. Bay Education Hoard at the meeting held on Thursday, when the question of cleaning schools was under consideration. ' .Mr. Morland said that in each of the nativeschools the children cleaned the rooms out themselves and they boasted that their schools were cleaner than those of ours. And they are right, too. Mr. Morland was supported by Mr. J. S. Wauchop, who stated that most of the married men knew what it was to get down on their knees and scrub floors, and he did not see why the children should not do the same. "Why not buy a I vacuum cleaner?" asked another member. (Laughter).