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Te Ao Hou, March 1964, Page 45

? A new meeting house at Otiria was opened last February by the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergusson. The meeting house was built largely by voluntary labour, under Messrs W. Hauraki, and G. and P. Cherrington. Mr J. C. Henare was in charge of financing the £20,000 project.

Miss Ngaire Karaka, an Auckland pianist, won a notable distinction recently when she was one of eight piano students, chosen from many applicants from all over New Zealand, who attended Master Classes with the famous pianist Lili Kraus. Ngaire also plays the double bass, playing this instrument in the Junior Symphony Orchestra (she is the only Maori to belong to it). Later, she hopes to go to London to further her music studies. She is a teacher at Panama Road School, Otahuhu, where she takes all the music in the school and has a choir of 40 children. Her mother, Constance Kareakihi Karaka, and her father, Mr Nohowaha Uri Karaka, of the Ngati Paoa tribe, live in Auckland. Mr Karaka is well known in the Auckland Province for his work as a trade union organiser. ? The entertainer Rim D. Paul, just back from a tour of Australia, Spain and Britain with the Maori Hi Fives No. 2 band, says he had a wonderful time overseas, but the thing he most enjoyed was getting together with other Maoris in London. Rotorua-born Rim (his offstage name is Denis) first became interested in entertainment as a pupil at Te Aute College, and started singing professionally with his father's band in Rotorua.