N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9103, 1 June 1908, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

EARTHQUAKE AT NAPIER. BY TKLEGBAPII —PIIESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, May 31. There was a prolonged earth tremor at about ten minutes, to ten o'clock this morning. PRICE OF BREAD. _ ___ "NAPIER, May 31. As the Flour-nillers' Association have leduced the price of Hour Napier and Hastings bakers have decided not to increase the price of bread at present.

MORMONS AND MAORIS. PROPOSED INSTITUTION OF INSTRUCTION. NAPIER, May 31. Mr Rufu3 K. Hardy, head of the Mormon Mission in New Zealand, gave a reporter some details of his church's work at Bridge Pa, near Hastings, where it ia intended to establish an institution at an expenditure of about £B,OOO. In the course of the interview Mr Hardy said:— Within the past four months we have purchased 130 acre 3 of good land at Bridge Pa, and we have the option over another 130 acres. On this ground we intend establishing a sort of college to impart a little higher education to young Maori men than they receive at ordinary schools, and at the same time train them manually in such industries as they show a preference for, and as are afforded by the Dominion. When our buildings are erected we will be able to accommodate a hundred students, and a capaule staff of teachers will instruct them amongst other things inscieutific farming, stock-raising, carpentry, blacksmithing, engineering, draughtmanship, etc., the idea being to place in the hands of the young Maori a trade or profession enabling him to become a useful, independent and self-supporting citizen. Ploughing has been commenced, and crops will be put in and plans of the buildings have been prepared. We will take any one irrespective of creed who will conform to the rules of the establishment. The only qualifications necessary are a desire for learning, freedom, from the use of alcohol and tobacco and absence of moral taint; but the main thing is that the pupils must net use alcohol or tobacco, and all this is to be done free of charge. The money for the land, builoings or equipment has not come from the natives nor from anyone in New Zealand, but has been given by our Church as a whole, and sent here from Salt Lake City. Part of the staff will come from America but some of a necessity will be practical, up-to-date New Zealanders with a thorough knowledge of local conditions. It is also anticipated that a great deal of the machinery for equipping the various departments will be of modern American manufacture. We intend to experiment with the best kind of stock, and if the land proves good we will probably go in for horticulture."