Te Pipiwharauroa 27

Te Pipiwharauroa 27

No.27

1900/05/01

(Maori Version at NZETC)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 27, Gisborne, May 1900

THE GOVERNOR’S DINNER FOR ST STEPHEN’S SCHOOL

On 4th May the Governor and his wife held a dinner for the young people of St Stephen’s School, Auckland. Sixty young people went to the Governor’s residence along with their teachers and the school administrators. Before the dinner some of the young people walked around the Governor’s garden. At the dinner, after the toast honouring the Queen the young people sang the song in praise of the Queen, ‘God save the Queen’.

After the dinner all went to Queen Street Wharf where there was a launch to carry the Maori party and the Governor and his friends to the warship HMS Pylades.

Te Pipiwharauroa 25

Te Pipiwharauroa 25

No. 25  

 1900/03/01

(Maori Version at NZETC)

No. 25 1900/03/01

[1]  Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama.

[2] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 25, Gisborne, March 1900

THE SHAME

In the address given by Mr Thornton, teacher at Te Aute, a summary of which was published in Number 19 of Te Pipiwharauroa, he said that Maori, Maori parents, were guilty of a sin in that there was much fornication amongst their children – ‘because of the use of filthy language, because of a lack of this thing - of modesty, their daughters were being brought up without values.’ This is an important thing for the Maori to take on board if they wish their daughters to grow up with a good name, without a blemish on their past, into young womanhood. If a girl does not have this modesty it will be her downfall, her degradation, her flight to the world of darkness.