MORMON MAORIS build their way to EDUCATION by ELSDON CRAIG ONE of the biggest of recent community building projects is being pushed ahead on a commanding site over-looking the rich farmland of the Waipa County about three miles from Frankton Junction. It is the New Zealand College of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (the Mormons). The magnificent campus is quickly taking shape and the spacious buildings are well underway. In a few years time they will be crowded with some 450 Maori and pakeha boys and girls taking part in a great experiment in residential, interracial co-education. The college is scheduled to open in 1957. But, as far as President David O. McKay, the world leader of the Mormons, is concerned it is already open. No students have been enrolled but President McKay considers the college is already playing its part in the community by training over 100 young men in trades and teaching them to become leaders in society. These are the missionary workmen who are building their college in that spirit of service which is one of the dominant principles of the Mormon Church. Te Ao Hou visited the site of the college shortly after President McKay made his inspection. It was easy to understand his gratification at the results of the work. The place was busy as an ant hill. The big, airy buildings rang with the sound of hammer and saw. Trucks plies up and down the wide driveways delivering load of materials. Machinery whirred and roared a Church President David O. McKay and official party inspecting construction on one of the girls dormitories. Fire escape stair in foreground.