CONTACT IN THE SCHOOLS.
MAORIS & WHITES.
(By,Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, September 19. Ini toferenco ii> a recent statement, attributed to the-Inspector of Native Schools, to tho effecrt that he had never heard of a case of a European child contracting "ake' ako" (Maori itch) from Maori children, an old resident of tho district informs the "Herald" that, When a lad', he was infected in the way reforred to. He and' other white children .attended a school which took Maori pupils, and scarcely a ohild of either race escaped. Ho also says that, in tho early days, ho had been in pas, where the disease was rampant, few escaping it, but, notwithstanding it« virulent form, there were comparatively few deaths.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7
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118CONTACT IN THE SCHOOLS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 7
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