MAORI EDUCATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1939, Page 6

MAORI EDUCATION

SUGGESTION AT TRUST MEETING. STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN. A suggestion that the question of Maori education could be legitimately discussed at the meeting, was made by Mr F. C. Daniell at last night’s annual meeting or rhe Masterton Trust Lands Trust. Macri education in the past fifty years, he said, had been a comolete failure.

The chairman, Mr H. P. Hugo, however, ruled that Mr Daniell was out of order in raising the question. “We are here,” he said, “to discuss the affairs of this Trust, and not those of any Maori trusts.” The trust could only assist established schools, and they could not get away from that. There were plenty of educational facilities in the town for both Maoris and pakehas.

Mr A. Donald said the principle raised by Mr Daniell was whether the Maoris should receive their Education with the whites, or be divided. In some small country schools where there were 99 per cent natives, it was a very difficult problem. As far as secondary education was concerned all the pupiis offering could well be accommodated at Wairarapa College. It was a question of whether the Trust could not make a grant to the college, and thus assist the natives.