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The first school along European lines for Māori in New Zealand was established in 1816 [6] by the missionary Thomas Kendall of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, at Rangihoua, in the Bay of Islands. The school had 33 students when it opened and the roll peaked at 70 within a year.
Native schools became known as "Māori schools" following the Maori Purposes Act 1947, under which all government usage switched from 'Native' to 'Maori'. The number of Māori schools began to decline in the 1950s. In 1958 almost 70 per cent of Māori children attended a board school, but there were still 157 Māori schools (down from 166 in 1955).
They are the first non-missionary European family to settle in New Zealand. They eventually raised 11 children who all lived to at least their late 60s. [2] March – Tui and Tītore, who arrived the previous year, leave Port Jackson (Sydney) for England in HMS Kangaroo. While there they may have helped Professor Samuel Lee start his Maori ...
Thomas Kendall (13 December 1778 – 6 August 1832) was a schoolmaster, an early missionary to Māori people in New Zealand, and a recorder of the Māori language.An evangelical Anglican, he and his family were in the first group of missionaries to New Zealand, accompanied to the Bay of Islands by Samuel Marsden in December 1814 and settling there.
The pressure on Carrington was intense: the first settlers' ship had sailed from Plymouth on 19 November and was already en route to New Zealand. Carrington invited Barrett to join his team and about 9 January 1841, the pair arrived at Ngamotu with a party of assistant surveyors on the barque Brougham , ready to choose a site for the new town.
At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
Moehanga was the first Māori to visit the United Kingdom.In 1806, a whaler, formerly HMS Ferret, was in the region.. Title page of John Savage's 'Some Account of New Zealand - Particularly the Bay of Islands, and Surrounding Country.'
The term emerged when the first school was established. [4] [5] [6] In 1987, a working party was established to investigate an alternative schooling model that would better meet the aspirations of Māori communities in New Zealand.