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SCHOOLMASTER RETURNS CHILDREN EAGER TO LEARN
The children of Niue Island are keen and intelligent. They have wonderful memories.
This tribute to the native children was paid yesterday by Mr. A. McKenzie, schoolmaster on the far away Pacific isle, who returned by the Hinemoa this morning on holiday. Mr. McKenzie is the only white master at Niue and he has been stationed there for the past three and a-half years. Under him are five native school teachers, who have been trained in the best educative methods.
He says there is a great deal of pioneering work to be done at Niue, but the children are quick to take up any subject and are eager to learn. The population of Niue is 4,000 and the principal trade is the export of bananas and copra. Mr. McKenzie says that the bananas are the finest grown in the Pacific and the trade is being fostered, but unfortunately is handicapped by distance from markets.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 13
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163BACK FROM NIUE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 13
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