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17. Good, useful, plain, married schoolmasters should be stationed in the 
various Maori districts; such to be had also from home, through the various 
Christian and philanthropic societies. 
18. Zealous, loving, self-denying European ministers to be placed among 
them ; men contented to serve their great Master in humility. Also to be 
had from home through the various Christian societies. No hireling, no 
mere observer of rites and ceremonies. The Maori have had enough of 
muttered charms and incantations. The young New Zealand Samson is not 
to be surely bound with green withes. 
19. In populous, wholly Maori districts, a religious physician or surgeon 
should be stationed ; to be also obtained from home. 
20. Anglo-Maori books should be written and printed for their use; 
and a really useful Anglo-Maori weekly paper should be established and 
circulated. © 
21. Once a year the Governor should meet the assembled chiefs at some 
principal Maori place to be fixed by them; and once in two years they 
should be assembled at the seat of government to see the Governor. 
22. The sons of the head chiefs, and of others, who may show an aptness 
to learn, should be sent to England, to be educated at Government expense ; 
but they should not be foolishly and flatteringly educated there as “ gentle- 
men:” rather in a plain, sound Christian way ; they should also be taught 
useful arts and trades. Remember Peter the Great. 
23. Occasionally one or more of the chiefs of the highest rank and most 
deserving should be taken to England, to see the sons of the chiefs there 
being educated, and to be presented to Her Majesty. 
24. European gentlemen visiting Maori distriets and villages should be 
careful to demean themselves as such. They should act there as they would 
in a village at home, or on the Continent. 
25. Spirituous liquors should be kept out of all purely Maori districts 
and villages. 
Cook found the Maori happy;—are they happy now? Ler vs ENDEA- 
YOUR TO MAKE THEM $80. 
CoxcLvsrox. 
66. The writer of this essay has no hesitation in expressing his settled 
conviction that, apart from any spiritual Christian benefit—a subject he 
has generally throughout this essay carefully avoided—taking all things into 
consideration, and viewing the matter from a philanthropie as well as a New 
Zealand point of view, it would have been far better for the New Zealanders 
as a people if they had never seen an European. 
