taea e tātou te haere atu, i ngā pitopito o te motu nei, ngā pukepuke, ngā pā rānei. Nāna i kī pau atu e whā, e rima rānei tau i te kura, puta mai ngā tamariki kāore kē e tino mōhio ana ki te kōrero i te reo Pākehā. Ka tini ngā pepa, ngā kōrero i pau ki te whakaatu ē, me pēnei me pēnā tātou kia mōhio ai ā tātou tamariki, ēngari hoi nā anō. Ko tātou te iwi mō te pākiwaha, ka mutu. E kore kē tātou e mahi kia tika ai. I āna tatau mai mō ngā tamariki Māori, Pākehā, i puta i ngā kura i te tau 1967, he pēnei. O ngā mea i mutu i te kāreti i muri atu i te toru, whā rānei tau: Māori 35% Pākehā 15% Tae rawa atu ki te wā kua pau te ono tau ki te Kāreti he pēnei: Māori 4.5% Pākehā 22% O ēnei, kotahi anō i roto o te kotahi rau, e toru tekau mā rima, arā, 1 in 135, i whiwhi i te mea nei, te tiwhikete mō te Whare Wānanga, arā University Entrance. Mō ngā Pākehā: Kotahi i roto o te kotahi tekau mā rua, arā, 1 in 12, i whiwhi i tana Tiwhikete. Whitu tekau mā iwa o ngā tama/wāhine Māori i mutu i te Kura i te tau 1967 i mutu noa iho. Kāore i taki; kāore he tiwhikete, aha atu rānei. Ngā mea i haere tonu atu ki ngā Whare Wānanga o te motu nei: Māori 0.8% Pākehā 7.7% Ki ngā Kāreti Wakaako Māhita: Māori 1.3% Pākehā4.3% Ka nui tēnei, nē? Kahitia pēheatia, te tau 1967, he tau koretake. Ka whakapā atu ia ki te Maori Education Foundation, ‘Nā te Māori mō te Māori’. Mena kē tēnei moni e whakapaungia ana hei tino pei atu i ā tātou tamariki ki te rapu i ngā mātauranga nunui o te ao nei. Waiho ngā kuranga o ā tātou tamariki mā te Kāwanatanga e tiaki, pēnei i ngā wāhi mō rere and Turakina. He also spoke about those isolated schools, hard to get at and found in valleys and pas throughout the country, in the rural areas. He reported that after four or five years of schooling Maori children still had language difficulties. Many papers, books and statements about our problem had been produced with suggested remedies, but that is all. We are a society of talkers but not doers. Mr Amos quoted the following statistics of Maori and Pakeha children from the N.Z.E.I. Report 1967: Those leaving school after their third or fourth form year: Maori 35% Pakeha 15% After the sixth form (college): Maori 4.5% Pakeha 22% Of these 1 in 135 of the Maori had University Entrance and 1 in 12 of the Pakeha. 79% of Maori students left school (1967) without any certificate of educational qualification. Those who went on to Universities throughout the country were: Maori 0.8% Pakeha 7.7% — 9 times greater Those who went on to Teachers' Training Colleges: Maori 1.3% Pakeha 4.3% These statistics are quite enough, aren't they? Whichever way you look at it, 1967 was a poor year. Mr Amos referred to the Maori Education Foundation saying, ‘From the Maori for the Maori… ‘ He would have liked to see this money being used as a ‘backstop’, or to push the student into further and higher fields of learning. Leave the ordinary schooling of our children to the Government, for