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17. Grood, 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 Grovernor 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 G-overnor. 



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 Grovernment 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 

 xiseful 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 districts 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 ? Let us endea- 

 toue to make them so. 



Conclusion. 



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 philanthropic as well as a New 

 Zealand point of view, it would have been far better for the New Zealanders 

 as a people if thej had never seen an European. 



