PEOPLE

Te Ao Hou, Autumn 1953, Page 32

PEOPLE Attentive members of an adult education class at Fraser Road settlement, near Hawera. The subject for the evening was Rarotonga. The Adult Education Officer, Mr W. Parker, gave a short talk and showed an interesting film. Photo: John Ashton. Arnold Wilson, a Maori boy who has completed a course in sculpture at an art school in Auckland. During his stay at the school he took a job to help pay his way. This sculpture of Tangaroa arising from the sea, shows how he has been able to use Maori motifs in his art. Photo: National Publicity Studios. Mr. F. Heketoro Leonard, of Rotorua, who is accompanying as guest artist the New Zealand Brass Band now making a tour of Britain. He will also lead the band in lakes. Photo: Arcadia Studios, Rotorua.

Mesdames P. A. P. Waho teach Maori and pakeha girls Maori weaving at Mokau public school. Photo: Crago Studios, New Plymouth Miss R. Hohapa by a plaque in Wairaka Park, Whakatane. The plaque commemorates the landing of the Matatau canoe (14th century). members of her tribe, Miss Hohapata is a direct descendar captain of the canoe and of Wairaka, his daughter, after park was named. Mr Hira Rogers in his store at Otaua, near Kaikohe. A retired dairy farmer, he planned the store and built it himself with the help of a relative. Photo: John Ashton.