COMMITTEES OF MAORI SCHOOLS The National Committee recommended that committees of Maori Schools be given the same status and capitation grants as public school committees—the Department was fully in agreement with the proposal. Legislation has now been passed giving the Department authority to proceed with the definition of school districts and the election of new committees. It is only right that the Maori should carry his share of responsibilities in educational administration. Under the old regulations Maori school committees carried little real responsibility for the running of their schools. Officers of the Department will visit all isolated school districts to make new procedures and new responsibilities as clear as possible. Other items of policy have been the subject of articles in these columns as for instance the special vocational guidance and placement needs of Maori children leaving school, and the Maori Scholarship system. Conditions are changing so rapidly that it is becoming apparent that further changes in the Scholarship system will be necessary and careful thought is being given to this matter at the present time. This brief review is sufficient to show how fully Maori education is backing up endeavours to place the Maori people in a position of equality with their European countrymen. Indeed education is the foundation upon which all social and economic advance must be based. It is of course much more than this, for spiritual values enter into the whole fabric of education. Maori education policy is designed to meet the future needs and aspirations of the Maori people. If it can do this successfully through several generations, the present pattern of racial goodwill will become cemented into a very real national brotherhood. Kept in at lunch time. (Photograph: Charles Hale)
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Te Ao Hou, April 1958, Page 29
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C/- Te Puni Kokiri
PO Box 3943
WELLINGTON
Phone: (04) 922 6000
Email: MB-RPO-MPF@tpk.govt.nz