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497: 425:, and increase agricultural and manual instruction. His view was that the most academically able students could be sent to ordinary secondary schools, and he predicted that eventually Te Aute would have no role to play in preparing boys for university. Thornton defended the existing academic curriculum, arguing that Māori opinion favoured academic instruction and that Māori parents relied on Te Aute for academic rather than vocational education. Ultimately the commission recommended that greater emphasis be placed on manual and technical instruction in agriculture, and the college's trustees complied under pressure from the Department of Education. In the following years the college's attempted pivot toward vocational instruction began alienating academically gifted students, notably 361: 440:, ultimately forcing the college to close temporarily. Reconstruction planning began immediately, with college trustees opting for more modern brick buildings. While construction planning continued, the college reopened in 1919 under a new headmaster E. G. Loten. Loten was a proponent of agricultural education, and satisfied the Department of Education's wish for an agriculturally intensive curriculum. On 9 September 1922 the foundation stone of the first new brick facility was laid by 390:

I tried from the very first to raise the standard of the school, and … conceived the idea of preparing Maori boys for the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University ... I saw that the time would come when the Maoris would wish to have their own doctors, their own lawyers, and their own

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began fundraising for the reconstruction of the college, accumulating £700 by 1870 – in part thanks to financial assistance from an aunt, Catherine Heathcote. Rebuilding began in 1871 and was completed in 1872. The college was reopened in 1872 under John Reynolds as headmaster. It began to grow

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established in 1902, which was dedicated to improving the position of Māori, grew out of the Te Aute Students Association, started by former students of the college in 1897. Old boys of Te Aute who were associated with the Young Māori Party include

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By 1900 Te Aute was renowned for high academic standards and had become pre-eminent among Māori boarding colleges, as it was sending several boys onto university each year.

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set up the Te Makarini Trust with an initial endowment of £3,000, which still provides annual scholarships to gifted students. The fund was established in memory of

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was gifted to the Te Aute Trustees for investment, the proceeds of which provided for a scholarship for many of the college's students over the following decades.

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gifting an additional 3397 acres. In recent decades, the original acquisition of the Crown's portion of land gifted for the school has been the subject of a

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In 1906 a Royal Commission of Inquiry was established to investigate the effectiveness of teaching at Te Aute and other Māori boarding colleges.

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Between 1878 and 1912 Te Aute was led by headmaster John Thornton, who implemented a curriculum developed along the lines of an English

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land in the region were acquired by the Crown. Then, when Colenso was dismissed from his mission in 1851, Williams' nephew

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was closed, and many of its students were permitted to board at Te Aute instead. As a result, the college became

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men's basketball team (2003–2016), began his professional coaching career while teaching at Te Aute in 1989

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On 27 November 1986, the house of Allen Williams was recognised as a Category I heritage building by the

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After only five years in operation, a fire destroyed much of the college and forced its closure in 1859.

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In 1973, the college was again hit by financial difficulties, but a direct appeal for assistance to the

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In 1918 the college was damaged significantly by fire again. This coincided with the impact of the

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took up residence in the region, and began advancing the plan to establish a school. He met with

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Several scholarship funds have been set up since the college's establishment. In October 1877,

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clergymen, and I felt it was only just to the race to provide facilities for their doing so.

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steadily, with 24 Māori and 3 English boarders in attendance by 1874, and some day pupils.

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Te Aute is situated within a valley of significant strategic importance to local

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State integrated, boys, secondary school in Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

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