TUAHIWI

Press, Volume L, Issue 14970, 18 May 1914, Page 5

TUAHIWI

There is still a good deal of sickness amonfi the Maori children at the Tuahiwi Native school. Tho master reports that ten out of a roll of 42 were absent last week from ailments of one kind and another. Dr. Crawshaw, who examines them at the school every week, and injects tuberculin into them, reports that tho methods adopted are proving satisfactory, and that the children are becoming more robust. Tho time devoted to deep-breathing and mid-day recess has reduced tho time given tho teacher to preparo'the children for the standards examination by nearly 250 hours a year, and yet ho is expected, single-handed, to cover tho same ground as is covered by full-term European schools. During **ho past year some 20 of the pupils have undergone operations for removal of adenoids, and on Friday last Mr Chamberlain, the dentist at Kaiapoi, examined the children's teeth, and found them on the whole "in a much better condition, lie said, than the average European chdd. though out of 29 mouths examined no fewer than 23 were recommgnded to havo from one to six teeth extracted, 26 to have from ono to seven stopped, and ten cleaned.