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Show Educating The Maoris Elder R. K. Hardy, late from the New Z 'aland Mission, paid us a ver pleasant visit early in the week arc related Inland reminiscences which have long been cherished to oui j memory. In relating-fond recollec-j recollec-j tions he told of the work the Church is doing in educating the Maori.-. A beautiful chapel wasereclet' and a printing office established where they issue the Messenger am the Maori Te Kan re. a weekly publication, pub-lication, u hich is widely circulate among th- G.000 members, botl European and Maori. In 1907 there were purchased 131 acres of land bv the church upoi which has been erecttd a large Aji riculiure College, Dormitory an Chapel. The College is under thi direction of Prof. John Johnson, late Principal of the Oneida State Academy. The College has one o; the most able Agronomists the A. C. U. has ever produced in charge of the Agricultural Department. Two years ago through the efforts of the New Zealand Missionary Society, So-ciety, the large Impliment manufacturing manu-facturing companies of the Unitec Slates, such as the International Harvester Co. and the Case Manufacturing Manu-facturing Co. of Racine, Wisconsin and the Molin, 111. gave most gener ously and. wisely to the Maori Agricultural Agri-cultural College of New Zealand such impliments as would be needed to farm and till the land owned b the college in a modern and up-to-date manner; thus affording the pupils an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the world's greatest efficient machinery. The two islands of New Zealar.ci are extremely fertile and the climate clim-ate very temperate. Nearly ever) acre of these not occupied by foresi and of a more recent volcanic origin are suceptiable to intense farming, and yield bounteously to even a a small effort put forth by the husbandman. hus-bandman. There are some 40,000 or 50,000 natives on the islands, who by the fact of their land poses. ions are wealthy, yet through lack of knowledge know-ledge of how to make proper use oi tiem, receive very little if any bene tit from their holdings. Through many years of careful consideration and observatien ol the Elders of Zion and the combined experience of some 600 of them, the conviction has gradually gro-vn thai such an institution was an absolute necessity. Their request was readily read-ily acceeJed to by the Church President Smith, himself having been a fervent and succt iful missionary mis-sionary among the I j,a. id. rs of t.ie South Seas, was more than vvi.iing to render hi a practical way assistance assis-tance to a race of people sj clear to him. Since the completion of the college, col-lege, words of praise by officials oi the New Zealand government ana visitors have been very many. fhebosin this institution have also been taught music. The Mission Mis-sion is particu.ariy fortuna;e in having hav-ing Walter Smith, a New Zealam. boy who nas heen in America for ;. number cf years, returned to tht Cnlegeas the instructor of music. A great many will know that Waiter Smith lus very few it a.iy, equ.i.s . . the manuV'lin in America. He 'na.-compoed 'na.-compoed some beauti.ul nius.c, vocal as weil as instrumental. Some of the popular numbers beinj , "The same Moon wid bh.ne." a.u. "My Beautiful Isle of the Sea." The college is open to all 'the young people of the islands and ihe institution expects to giaduate about 50 pupils a year. The coui se given by the col ege are Agronomy, .horticulture, Hist ry, l'neology, Viathem.uics Manual Tiaini i-,' and ill tne subjects in higher learning. |