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Ki a tatau ki te Maori, ko te tino whakataunga nui i puta mai i te hui, ko te whakaaro o te komiti, ara, “Kaore ano i rite te wa mo te whakakorenga atu i nga kura Maori.” Ko tetehi whakatau ano i rite ki tera te nui, ko tenei, Kia tukuna te mana whakahaere i nga kura Maori ki o ratau komiti, kia pera me era kei raro i nga Poari mo nga Kura. Tetehi whakahau totika hoki, Ko te whakatu i tetehi Opiha mo nga Kura Maori, hei whakatere kia u, ki nga tamariki Maori kei nga kura Pakeha, te kaupapa whakaakoranga i te Maoritanga, e akonatia nei, i roto i o tatau kura Maori. Te heamana o taua komiti, ko te teputi tumuaki o te Tari o nga Kura, ko D. G. Ball, i tuku nei i tana kaha ki te hiki i nga Kura Maori, kia pera te rite ki o te Ao Pakeha. Koi nei te taumata whakamutunga i nohoia e ia, i mua o tana hekenga iho i te Kirihimete nei, i te turanga, Kaiwhakahaere Awhina mo nga kura, ki te whakata. Na taua hui, puta poroporoaki ana i a ia, te whakatutukinga o ana moemoea o nga tau ka maha, ara rawa ia, tana tauira, hei whaka-manamananga ma taua, notemea, i pupu ke i te whatu manawa, i hohonu rawa ki te matauranga, ki te hinengaro hoki o te Maori. for years. His contribution to this new blueprint for Maori education is not to be under-estimated. It was the contribution of a man who had come to understand both education and the Maori people better than almost anyone else in the country. Seven of the committee members were Maoris. They were: Messrs. J. Henare, R. Vercoe, Dr. M. Winiata, Messrs. A. T. Carroll, E. Edwards, T. T. Ropiha, C. M. Bennett. The remaining five were Mr K. I. Robertson, senior inspector of Maori schools, Col. T. Durrant, Chairman, South Auckland Education Board, Mr T. B. McDonald, Chairman, Hawkes Bay Education Board, Mr F. M. Pinfold, Papamoa Maori School, representing the Maori teaching service and Mr W. L. S. Britten, Miramar Central School, representing the N.Z. Educational Institute. When the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. M. Algie, approved the committee's ideas about the future education of the Maori child he requested that the resolutions and recommendations should be published in full in a magazine circulating among the Maori people. Because of the unsual importance of these new ideas, Te Ao Mr N. Stainton wants to introduce Maori carving classes in his own school. He is copying the patterns of carvings made by Mr Mead's pupils at Minginui Forest.