Te Aute College Te Aute College is an institution founded by the Rev. Samuel Williams in 1854 to help educate the Maori race. Land was donated by the Government and by the local Maori chiefs. The first few years were not very successful, and in 1859 the school was closed down owing to lack of funds. It was re-opened in 1872 after the termination of the Maori Wars. Te Aute continued to progress in the following years and influenced the young Maoris who had to bring their race from a primitive civilization, to that of the Victorian era. For Te Aute, the coming of the twentieth century meant disaster. In the space of a mere fifteen years, two fires and a severe earthquake partially wrecked many of the existing buildings, causing heavy financial loss, and almost brought about the second
closing down of the school. However, this did not eventuate and immediately following these setbacks, under the leadership of Mr Loten, who was headmaster at the time, Te Aute began a long uphill struggle to reach the standard it has now attained. In the hundred and thirteen years Te Aute has been in existence, many distinguished men have passed through and have gone out to lead and help our Maori people to adopt the European way of life, which is a far more advanced life than that which our ancestors lived. The most notable of these have been Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Maui Pomare, Sir Peter Buck and Doctor Ellison. The standards set by Maoris at Te Aute have in many ways been adopted by other Maoris as their standards and thus Te Aute has been responsible for giving Maoris a goal at which to aim. Te Aute is now in a position where it can look to the future with a good deal more confidence than it has done before. Maoris are more and more realizing that education is more of a benefit to a person rather than something that ‘has to be gone through’. Because of this it seems quite likely that Te Aute College will continue to progress and maintain its position as an instrument in the education of the Maori race. Peter Goldsmith, Lower VI, Te Araroa
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Te Ao Hou, September 1968, Page 55
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