452 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



I will not further trespass upon your time. Other articles 

 of Maori handicraft formed with the tools I have attempted 

 to describe must be passed over with slight notice : Heru, 

 combs of various kinds of wood and of bone ; the putaou, or 

 conch-shell, used as a trumpet ; the inikaea. Musical instru- 

 ments : the koauau, koivamcau, or flute, with which Tutanekai 

 serenaded and charmed the maiden Hinemoa; the paJcuru, 

 the lyutorino, and many others. The limits of a single paper 

 will not allow of more than a rapid glance at some of the more 

 interesting items in the Maori repertory of tools and weapons. 



I beg now to thank you for having so patiently listened to 

 me, and to say that, if my imperfect attempt to deal with an 

 interesting subject should lead to further inquiry on the part 

 of some of my audience, I shall feel that the time occupied 

 by me in putting together these few notes, and by you in liS' 

 tening to me, has not been altogether wasted. 



Art. L. — Why should School-teaching provide only for the 

 Counter or the Desk ? 



By James Adams, B.A. 



[Read before the Aticlcland Institute, 28th August, 1S93.] 



It is not usual to associate, in idea, the work of the missionary 

 with the advancement of science — the one seems to depend so 

 much on the warm feelings of the heart, the other on the 

 cold reasoning of the mind. So bright a halo of self-sacrifice 

 appears around the labours of the missionary that we can 

 imagine conversions as the result of sublime enthusiasm alone. 

 But as a matter of fact the missionary and the scientist work 

 hand-in-hand- — an alliance that can be seen by studying the 

 manner in which any particular mission has been established. 

 Indeed, we shall find that practical scientific knowledge is a 

 more powerful aid to success than pious enthusiasm or even 

 than fiery zeal. 



A good example of this is afforded by the mode of esta- 

 blishing the mission sent in 1814, to convert the Maoris. 

 First of all the mission party gained a firm footing in the 

 island by securing beforehand the friendship of a Maori chief 

 who admitted the missionary and his party to membership of 

 his tribe. This same chief had not only been to Sydney, but 

 also to London, where he formed some idea of the wealth, the 

 genius, and the might of the English. Ignorant, as he was, of 

 the language, he could not have understood anything of the 



