Poem

Te Ao Hou, September 1965, Page 20

Poem by Paul Nicolle written after reading ‘He Aroha Ranei to taku Iwi’ in the March issue of Te Ao Hou Authority no longer is fed upon a stick nor carried in chanting centipede canoes slides shorewards on the seas' crescents. Sits in faceless silence in an office unknown down endless corridors proliferates his being to where pen-poised the little men consult the kingdom catalogue while my impatient blood denies this progress. We apologise for two translation errors in the article ‘The First Pakehas to Visit the Bay of Islands’ in the last issue. The passages concerned should have been as follows: (Page 14) Te Kuta married Ngawa and had Patu… (Page 17) the clothes which were stolen by Ngati Pou to give to Te Hikutu. to Te Kauri's people… The women at isolated Te Tii, in the Bay of Islands, in three months raised £75 in funds for their new play centre. They did this by working together to make over 200 kits, which the district health nurse sold for them all over Northland. Larry parr of raetihi is this year's holder of the £100 Apirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship awarded annually by the Maori Education Foundation. Larry, who is attending St. Stephen's College, hopes to become a chemist.