YOUTH CLUB NEWS

Te Ao Hou, December 1957, Page 62

YOUTH CLUB NEWS A youth club started recently at Poroutawhao near Levin, has over sixty members, and concentrates on entertainments and Maori arts. The club hopes to contest Easter competitions next year. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ At the annual Maori competitions at the Gisborne Opera House last September, the A.M.P. (Gisborne) group won the Karaitiana Tamararo Shield for the best team performance. Waihirere did the best action song, poi dance and haka taparahi, while the competition for an ancient Maori item for women was won by Whangara. Ten teams competed, the judges being A. Reedy, Ngaropi White. Kura Bush and Tutawa Pewhairangi. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ At Greymouth a ‘Wai-Ohorere Maori Club’ was formed recently to bring the young Maori people in the district together for sport, recreation and perhaps a concert party. The club will be open to pakehas as well as Maoris. Funds are being raised to buy a section and erect a building on it, for which purpose a dance band has been formed. President is Mr J. Toroawhiti; chairman, Mr Maui Love; secretary, Mr Wiki Petera. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ A Maori concert party has been organised in Wellington under the name of Roopu Ngahau; many of its members belong to the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club. Their idea is that they will provide a Maori group of singers and entertainers who will be available to entertain passengers aboard cruise ships from overseas which may call at Wellington. The compere of the party is Anania Te Amohau; the hakas are led by Don Manunui, and the women by Mrs M. Hiroti. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ In a Northland Talent Search recently, winner of the first singing prize (£75) was Joe Repia of Moerewa. The final contest was in the Whangarei town hall. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ The most interesting thing in Auckland is? The chimpanzee's tea party in the zoo. Who says so? A majority verdict of 13 out of 24 pupils of Oromahoe Maori School (Bay of Islands) who visited Auckland recently. They expressed their preference in essays written after their one week visit. Their second choice was rides on the elephant.