Students now going through teachers' college are being taught a good deal about Maori dances, arts and crafts. Club evenings like the one shown above occur every week, and the teachers' college action song group has helped on many occasions to do ceremonial service for the Auckland Maori community. Undoubtedly, the experience gained in this way will have a good deal of influence on the educational world in the years to come (see also page 38). Auckland Girls' Grammar School has a fair number of Maori girls. Miss Gardiner, the principal, has called in Mr J. Waititi to teach Maori culture, past and present. There are 47 Maori girls at this school. Many of them completed two years of schooling in Auckland and were attending for the third year. It is interesting to note that hardly any of the girls, either at Auckland Grammar or Queen Victoria, are Maoris who reside in Auckland. they have come to school from outlying districts. These three schools are the only schools in the Auckland Metropolitan Area to give regular Maori instruction. Other keen Maori students seek lessons privately. Most of these Maori pupils return to their home town after finishing school but many also take up professional work in Auckland such as teaching, university studies, radiography or nursing.

SPECIAL SCHOOLS A number of special schools are scattered throughout Auckland: Titirangi has a school for the deaf, Parnell has a school for the blind, Epsom a cerebal palsy centre, and Onehunga a backward class for slow learners. Newmarket has a remedial clinic, Auckland Hospital an educational centre, and Owairaka a school for difficult boys. All these schools cater for Maoris as well as Pakehas. Each child is given special treatment and training. Many Maoris are becoming aware of these special facilities, for there is an increasing number taking advantage of them. To sum up, Auckland's importance to the Maori as an educational centre can hardly be overemphasised: not only do city schools and colleges help to adapt the Auckland Maori to the social pattern of the urban community, but they also increasingly serve the Maoris from other parts of the province. To hundreds of young Maoris, Auckland is an educational Mecca from where they can radiate out to the villages and help in the successful adjustment of the Maori of the future.