MAORI AGRICULTURE
FARM TRAINING WANTED ACQUIRING PASTORAL SENSE The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. O. J. Hawken, conveys the belief that the Maori will have an influence in the agricultural and pastoral development of this country, if the proper methods of training are adopted. “The Maori was an agriculturalist, a fisherman, and a bird-snarer, but he was never a pastoralist,” Mr. Hawken said to the Maori pupils at the Wesley College yesterday, “so that, although he possessed the agricultural instinct, general farming principles had to be taught him, and he had to be given the right to handle animals and acquire the pastoral sense.
“As a forester the Maori was ahead of the European, and he should be encouraged not only to exploit his hereditary gardening faculty, but to adopt the European method in other fields of farming. Those Maori and Island boys being so ably trained at Wesley College would have a great influence for progress among their own people.’ ’ _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 1
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