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Te Ao Hou, December 1965, Page 11

Homework study centres where children can work in the evenings are now operating in a number of Maori communities. Study centres with small libraries attached to them are functioning at Orakei, Auckland, and at Putiki, Wanganui, and a study centre based on those at Rotorua has recently been established at Kawerau. Mr S. M. Mead, well known as an educationist and a writer of books on Maori culture, recently left New Zealand to spend three years in the United States. He is to study primitive art for a doctorate of philosophy at the University of South Illinois. Mrs Mead and their two daughters accompanied him. A member of Ngati Manawa of Murupara and of Ngati Pahipoto and Ngati Rangiheua of Te Teko, Mr Mead was formerly headmaster at Whatawhata School. Later he became a lecturer in Maori studies in Auckland University's anthropology department. Pukekohe's Maori welfare officer, Miss Ngahinaturae (Ina) Te Uira, recently spent three months in the United States studying social welfare under a grant given by the American government. Ina Te Uira comes from the small community of Taharoa, south of Kawhia Harbour. She went to Queen Victoria School, and joined the Maori Affairs Department in 1951. Before going to Pukekohe she spent several years as a welfare officer in Te Kuiti, and also graduated with a diploma of social science at Victoria University.