NATIVE SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9189, 11 September 1908, Page 4

NATIVE SCHOOLS.

The annual report dealing with the native schools in the Dominion con tains some interesting information. The number of Maori village schools is ninety-nine, and the number of children on the roll at the end of last year was 4,183—an increase of 46 per cent during the past ten years. There are also six native mission schools, at which primary education is given to Maori children, while secondary education is provided for by six boarding schools under the control of the various church authorities. At the end of last year 145 Maori boys and 125 girls were on the rolls of these schools. Six Maori girls are receiving training at various hospitals, with a view to their working as nurse 3 among their own people. There are twelve workshops in the village schools; there has been an increase in the number of schools at which instruction in domestic duties is given; and elementary practical education now forms a subject of instruction in native schools, at many of which school gardens have been established.