A MATRICULATION SUBJECT.
Dr Hocken, at a meeting of the Council of the Otago University, brought forward the question of making the Maori language an optional subject for the matriculation examination. There would be no difficulty in obtaining examiners, he said, and as regarded literature there was the poetry of New Zealand collected by Sir George Grey, and the Scriptures translated by Maori scholars, A University course would enable a Maori student to do much for the advancement of hia people, and would rescue the Maori language from the woeful condition into which it had fallen. The study of Maori as a dialect of the Polynesian language was of great importance from an ethnological and linguistic pojnt of view. He moved that, in accordance with the resolution of the Maori Congress, it should be a recommendation to the Senate that Maori should be added to the list of optional subjects for the matriculation examination. The motion was agreed to by the Council.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 4
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162A MATRICULATION SUBJECT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 4
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