Training Cook Islanders
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As School Teachers.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, Jan. 7.
IN the near future the famous old mission school at Tereora, Raro tonga, will be reopened as a Govern ment secondary school. There natives will be trained to become school teachers, and as time goes on they will replace the more highly paid Europeans.
There will be agriculture and handi craft classes where the natives will be taught practical scientific fruit-growing and the use of tools.
It is the opinion of many that this is a move in the right direction, both from a practical and an economic view point. In the Northern Cooks, where there are no European teachers, scholars are just as well educated as those in Rarotonga.
Rev. Geoffrey Stanley Crouch, 8.A., of Nadroga, Fiji, who has spent five years in the Colony with the Methodist Mission, is now in Australia on fur lough. Owing to the ill-health of his wife, he will not return to Fiji, but will remain in Victoria.