HIGHER EDUCATION
MAORI INTEREST By Telegraph—Press Association HASTINGS. March 9. “More Maori children are attending colleges In the Dominion for postprimary education than for many years, perhaps more than ever before, and Maori colleges and schools are full as a result of the impetus which better times has given higher education.” said the Bishop of Aotearoa to-day. The evidence of better times was that Maoris could afiord to send their children to school. Thousands of Maori boys and girls were attending native, public, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic. Methodist and Church of England Schools. “The impetus given higher education for Maoris affects the whole of New Zealand,” said the Bishop. “For what is probably the first time in its history Te Aute College has a roll of more than 100 boys.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20982, 10 March 1938, Page 8
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