schools, notably Hillary College. However, in private Maori secondary schools, such as Queen Victoria School and St Stephen's School. Maori was taught extensively. But today the language is taught to thousands of children in a number of intermediate and State secondary schools. A limiting factor is the supply of qualified teachers. Form 11 pupils in nine intermediate schools in the Auckland Education Board's area learn Maori language and customs. At Mangere Intermediate, however, lessons are extended to Form 1 pupils. In primary schools, up to Standard Four, Maori language is taught incidentally as part of the social studies programme. There are now more than 4,500 secondary school pupils learning Maori compared with 1962 six years ago. A feature is that in the same time the numbers of Europeans taking the subject have risen from 76 to 1381. This is due to the fact that Maori is now a School Certificate subject. There are 21 State secondary schools in the Auckland area offering the language. Many more schools also teach Maoritanga, which includes language, culture and arts and crafts in evening classes. This is a complete change from the position of many years ago when at the insistence of some Maori elders who believed the future of their children lay in being fluent in English, Maori pupils heard speaking their language at school were punished. Both Auckland Primary Teachers' College and North Shore Teachers' College plan to introduce courses in Maori studies, including language, next year. At Auckland Secondary Teachers' College, those graduate students who intend to teach the Maori language have courses to help them. All students have a study course designed to give them a background to Maoritanga while there is an elective course available in Maori education and sociological studies. Impetus to the teaching of Maori language in schools has been given by the National Advisory Committee on Maori Education, an organisation set up by the Government to advise the Minister of Education on matters relating to Maori education. Two years ago it recommended that priority be given to the teaching of Maori language and the pronunciation of common Maori words and phrases, including place names. This should be part of the primary school syllabus up to Standard Four for all pupils, it said. Another recommendation was that in Forms I and II, Maori language be introduced as an option in a linkage scheme similar to that operating for French. (This means the language would be taught at those intermediate schools who feed secondary schools also offering the language). The teaching of Maori in secondary schools as an optional subject where there was sufficient community demand was also recommended. The committee made this recommendation because it was concerned that so many Maori children lacked confidence in themselves. It declared: “It is clearly important that ways must be Teacher Mr W. Houia points out words to one of his pupils at Mangere Intermediate School National Publicity Studios