Schools.

Wherever he went, Grey introduced the means of education. He had initiated public schools among the Maoris, and he now founded a great industrial school at Lovedale that seems to have been an unqualified success. By 1890, it is stated, as many as 2,000 youths had passed through it and there received both general and technical training. So highly was it appreciated that Kafir chiefs for seventeen years contributed as much as £1,000 a year towards its support, and the testimonies to its utility are abundant and strong. Similar schools page 99for the training of youths in agriculture and carpentry were established elsewhere in Kafirland. Of these the first was set up at Heald Town. So successful was it that in a single year, 1857, the Fingoes contributed £220 to its support. High schools were also founded for the sons of chiefs and the training of teachers. On all these Grey reported in terms of high commendation, as was his custom in respect of all his experiments; but, as with similar institutions in South Australia and New Zealand, the Imperial Government was sceptical of his success. It had a right to make a jealous scrutiny of the results. A large part of the cost—apparently, the greater part of it—fell on the Imperial Government and the missionary societies.