Proudly displaying their drawings, pottery and woodwork, pupils of the Kāwhia Native School (apparently including several Pākehā) stand outside their schoolhouse in this undated photo. Government-funded native schools were set up in 1867 to provide English-language education in Māori communities. The last surviving native schools were transferred to local education board control in 1969. At that time they were still known as native (rather than Māori) schools, although official use of the term 'native' had ended more than 20 years earlier.
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