Encouragement for the Brighter Child He Awhina mo te Tamariki Hihiko Meake nei ka whiwhi nga tamariki Maori, tane wahine, e noho tata ana ki nga haikura ki etahi awhina mo nga kura rawaho penei me Te Aute me Hukarere me era atu kura. Ko inanei te whakatau a Te Minita mo nga Kura a Te Honore R. M. Algie i te Aperira nei i runga i te kupu tautoko a te hui i tu ki Poneke hei whiriwhiri me pehea nga kura Maori a nga ra e tu mai nei. Ka whiwhi huarahi ke ano nga tamariki e whai ana ki nga mahi ma te hinengaro hei oranga mo ratou. E wha te kau nga karahipi ka whakawhiwhia ki nga tamariki kua puta i nga kura o raro e tata ana ki aua haikura a ma te maia o te tamaiti ka whiwhi. Kei te raroto tenei kaupapa ki te iwi Maori. Mai rano i te tau 1881 enei karahipi i whakawhiwhia ai ki nga tamariki Maori. Tae noa ki te tau 1898 e wha tau ano te kaha o nga kura o raro a kei nga kura a nga hahi te rua tau o ko atu i runga i te awhina a te Kawanatanga. Ko Te Aute Kareti te kura tuatahi ki te whakaako i te Maori mo nga mahi a hinengaro penei me nga mahi takuta me era tu mahi a ko te tangata nana taua kaupapa ko te tumuaki rongonui o taua kura ko Te Tatana. No muri mai etahi atu kura Maori i whai ai i te tauira a Te Aute. Huri rawa ake te rau tau hou kua eke ki te ono tau te kaha o nga kura Maori o raro, a ka whakawhiwhia e te Kawanatanga ana awhina mo te rua tau ki nga kura a nga hahi ki nga tamariki e pahi i nga whakamatautau mo te karaehe o runga o aua kura o raro. I tenei ra kua nekehia te kaha o te awhina a te Kawanatanga ki te wha tau a kei te haere nga tamariki Maori ki nga kura Pakeha. Ka tu nga haikura ki nga rohe tuawhenua ka tata mai nga kura tuarua ki nga tamariki kaore i ahei ki enei tu kura i mua ake nei. Kei te manaakitia aua kura a ka nui te piki o te matauranga o te iwi. Ko tenei matauranga te kaupapa o nga mahi a ringa, a meake nei ka kiki aua mahi Maori boys and girls living near a district high school will in future be eligible for scholarships to board at Church colleges and approved high schools. This decision was taken last April by the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. A. Algie, following recommendations by the committee which discussed the future of Maori schools in Wellington last November. This decision further widens the opportunities of young Maoris who desire to follow a professional career. Forty scholarships will be awarded to primary school leavers living within legal distance of district high schools and scholars will be chosen on merit. Maori opinion is known to be strongly in favour of this new development. Scholarships have been given to Maori boys and girls since 1881. Until 1898, Maori village schools gave only a four-year course, and the Church boarding schools provided a further two at the Government's expense. Te Aute College was the first school to offer Maoris secondary education of an academic type. The man who introduced this was the famous headmaster Mr Thornton. Gradually other colleges followed the lead of Te Aute. At the turn of the present century six years of elementary education were given at the ordinary village schools while the Government awarded its scholarship to proficient pupils who wished to follow a two-year post-primary course at one of the Church colleges. Today, the tenure of these scholarships is four years and many of the pupils go to European high schools. With the establishment of district high schools in many remote areas, post-primary education came within the reach of many who had previously been deprived of it. These new schools are spreading knowledge and progress in their districts. They are producing many of the Maori apprentices who will be the skilled workers of tomorrow. In addition they are training some young men and women, who after doing their school certificate desire to study for professions like teaching, law, medicine, etc. The Education Department made it a rule at first that those who lived within reach of a district high school would not qualify for the boarding scholarships. The scholarships were to be only for those who otherwise could get no post-primary education at all. As a result, the number of candidates for the scholarships became less from year to year because there are so few areas left not served by colleges or district high schools. However, eighty scholarships worth £70-£75 continued to be awarded and last year 307 were current. Maori delegates on the Committee on Maori Education at the meeting held in Wellington last November, put forward a proposal that half of