Schoolgirls are shown learning how to cook and sew at a native school in the 1940s. As the narrator notes, 'Theirs is not a specialist training, but a training for living.' The New Zealand education system typically did not promote academic education for Māori.
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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference:
Weekly Review 324. National Film Unit, 1947
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