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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2747, 28 February 1910, Page 3

In his speech at the Christchurch Technical College recently, Bishop Grimes suggested technical education for Maoris. *‘l cannot for the life of me understand,” he said, “those persons who urge that the Maori should bo sent to the university and the high schools, where after a number of years he is turned out with a. smattering of some kind of English, a knowledge of thumping the piano, or performing a modified haka, m the ability to indulge in the ‘light fantastic,’ instead of that fine race being sent to a technical college, where they would learn something useful to them'in after life. Am lan advocate of classical studies? Yes, certainly, for those destined to fill the learned professions; lout for the hulk of the pcqple—those who have to fight their way in life—practical studies a.ro imperative, and, better still, theory combined with practice is absolutely necessary for either a hoy or girl who will have to fight liis or her way in life.”