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- Title
- Weekly Review No. 324 - Māori School
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This edition of the long-running National Film Unit series documents the curriculum at Manutahi Native District School in Ruatōria in 1947. The roll of 300 primarily Māori students, travel to the rural school on bus, foot and horse to learn everything from the alphabet to preparing preserves. Set in the post-war baby boom period, the male students learn to build a cottage while the girls learn ‘home economics’ (cooking and running a household). The first principle of the schooling is “learnin...
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- Video
- Date created
- 1947
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- national film unit / nfu / ngāti porou / east coast / post war / baby boomers / rural / hikurangi / schooling / preserves / farming / lifestyle / woodwork / building / bee keeping / domestic / carving / education / model cottage / butchery / ruatoria / beekeeping / little liza jane / li'l liza jane / hine e hine
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