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Te Ao Hou, December 1965, Page 18

A Maori school-teacher in Rotorua, 35-year-old Mr Peter Anaru, has been named by the New Zealand Jaycee organisation as one of the three most outstanding young men in the country. Mr Anaru, whose selection was announced at the National Jaycee Convention last October, was nominated by the Rotorua and District Head Teachers' Association. He is first assistant master at the Rotorua Intermediate School and is a major in the Hauraki Regiment of the Territorial Army. He served for three years in Malaya, and was mentioned in dispatches. Mr Anaru is vice-president of the Rotorua Management Committee of the Educational Institute, and is active in many other aspects of educational and community service. A young printing apprentice, Mr Horowai (Bubs) Pomana, has shown courage and determination of a high order in overcoming in his work the handicap of having disabled hands and being confined to a wheelchair. After six years' training, he is now the head of the printing shop at the Pukeora Home for the Disabled, Hastings, and recently received from the Master Printers' Association a special award of merit for his high marks in the printers' theory examinations. In presenting the award, the president of the Hawkes Bay Master Printers' Association Mr N. Wilson, said that few printing apprentices who had trained and studied under ideal conditions could have equalled Mr Pomana's examination results. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ A Maori resident of Palmerston North, who wishes to remain anonymous, has transferred to the Maori Education Foundation her interests in two blocks of land in the Wanganui area. The annual rents earned by this land will now accrue to the Foundation. The land interests are valued at a total of £219 and produce approximately £11 a year in rent. Judge Smith of the Maori Land Court who granted the transfer order expressed the hope that other Maori people would follow the example of the donor. The Foundation feels that this is a most generous gift which will provide a continuing income. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ When Kiri Te Kanawa won the Melbourne Sun Aria Contest a few months ago, the pianist was Miss Barbara Connolly, who is also of part Maori descent. The daughter of Mr Harry Connolly of Ruatoria, Barbara has been Kiri's accompanist during many of her other competition successes also. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ An American university student aged 22, Mr Gerald Kirk, asks if there is a Maori, perhaps about his own age, who would like to correspond with him. Mr Kirk is a student of traditional Polynesian culture. His address is 2722 Broadway East, Seattle, Washington 98102. U.S.A.