NATIVE SCHOOLS.
A PARLIAMENTARY RETURN,
(Special to “Times.”)
WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. A return presented to tho House shows that at present there are in the Urewera district three native schools with -an average attendance of 70 children. Four schools had been closed since 1900. In that year there were seven schools with an average atteiidaucc of 157 scholars. Tlie Waimanana school was closed last year owing to tho removal of the natives to Rua’s settlement. The school- at Tchoiha was closed in 1905, owing to the block of land in which the school buildings stood being claimed by a European named Beale- The Galatea school was closed in 1904 owing to tlio falling off of tlie attendance, and tlio Kokako school was closed in -1900 owing to small attendances and the apathy of the na- : tives.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2277, 24 August 1908, Page 2
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136NATIVE SCHOOLS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2277, 24 August 1908, Page 2
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