Native Schools.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1695, 17 June 1885, Page 3

Native Schools.

i iiF_Tf| rtt of Mr J. 11. r. j -g the Inspector i f Native Schools. l.ns Ken presented to Pniiisiaeiit. V. nii remtenco; i> the Native he.,i“ Is (a the Wniran.pa, i.c wiites : Pii[ awai.—Xi tl jug L,.s jet bren d-, nein the way cur;’.,a a ,-ite ar.d bunding a school

hilt-. ILiidhcta. the chief, speaks as if the unutt-r ci uld I c scttii ~1 in a very shoit lime, and so tic did at my two previous visits ; but nothing comes to pass, It ia hard to say wiit-re the hitcu is : but it is probably caused by the u:.wiihttct.f-.-s . f the Mmris* to give any more land, when ti.sy consider that they hj u l already given too much i„t religious and euiuatb.-nal purposes. Any way it is much to 10 regretted that a suitable school cannot Le established.

To Ore Ore.—A difficulty exists here also. The natives tq-pc.ir to be willing enough to r t\c a site for a proper Landing, but the legal dilt.cuiti is nr tin ".uv seem to be insuperable. Ire building it.-avi as a schoolroom is til.,roughly unsuitable, and m,w that the Natives live m the traedrci’s former quatters, and u-e the schoolroom as an eating, slcepir.g. and dancing room, the arrangements are nii-re unsatisfactory than ever. At rny previous visit I found tlie .schoolroom, furniture, and nrateiiai in s-urc sort of decent old. r: but now everything is "at sixes and sevens." hi- to be Impel that it will in some way be found possible to have a decent building a pro perly organised school here, teemg that there is no reason to doubt that uruer fairly favorable circumstances a very good attendance coirlu bo maintained at Te Ore Ore.