Schools.

As previously in South Australia, he endeavoured to civilise the Maoris by educating the young. This time, however, he set up no State schools, but wisely left the teaching of the Maori children in the efficient hands of the missionaries. A proportion of the Colonial revenue, a larger proportion of the proceeds of land sales, and a fixed proportion of the funds contributed by the Imperial Government were paid to the Anglican, Wesleyan, and Catholic missionaries. A total sum of £5,900 was thus annually expended. The only conditions annexed were that Government inspectors should be permitted to examine the schools, and that English should be taught in them. Grey also induced the Maoris to set apart landed reserves as permanent endowments that would constantly be rising in value. The schools were industrial as well as educational. Carpenters and farm labourers were to train the young Maoris in the primary arts. Agricultural implements, horses, and cows were to be provided by the Government. Grey congratulated himself on the amount of success these institutions attained. It was, at all events, the beginning of a system of education which, to the credit of the Colony, has never been pretermitted.