PERSONAL IMPRESSION

Te Ao Hou, March 1960, Page 24

PERSONAL IMPRESSION There was the delight of meeting old friends, with some of whom I had lost contact altogether. There was the pleasure of hearing once again the voices of older men whose lead I had followed in other years and other situations, men like Bishop Panapa, Lieutenant-Colonels A. Awatere and J. C. Henare, Messrs M. R. and P. Te H. Jones, Mr T. T. Ropiha and Mr S. R. Morrison. There was the opportunity of paying my respects to those leaders and teachers such as Mr A. T. Carroll, Dr Belshaw, Dr Winiata and Dr Biggs all of whom I knew more by repute than by personal acquaintance. Then, still speaking personally, there was my own deep satisfaction at being associated even for so short a period and on so transient a pretext with the University of Auckland. Such academic studies as I had contemplated as a youth had been scattered like dead leaves in the wind with the outbreak of war, scattered and never again gathered together. So I liked to think as I came into the echoing entrance hall each morning of the conference that I was part, even in a humble way, of that great institution of learning.