TE AUTE COLLEGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8124, 1 June 1906, Page 2

TE AUTE COLLEGE.

MB PIIKSB AfcSO lATION Wrilinoton, May 31. The Te Aute Trust Commission sat here to-day and took the evidence of J. H. Pope, ex-inspector of Native schools, and G. Hogben, Inspector General of Schools. Mr Pope gave it as his opinion that, although in the initial stages of study there might be an advantage with the children of Europeans, due to what might be termed ancestral aptitude, yet when the stiffness, so to speak, wore off, there was no difference between the Maori and the European. It had become apparent to wiiness and others that not every Maori boy was fitted to become a successful university man. Teohuical and manual instruction should be given. Mr Hogben said one did not blame the To Aute Collego authorities for being behind the times, since the wholb system of education had'changed in the last twenty-five years, and would Probably change wholly again during ftrnext twenty-five. The time had come when there should bo a radical change at Te Auto. There should be no attempt made to "put new wins into old bottles."