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Te Ao Hou, March 1966, Page 45

The chairman of the Kahungunu Maori Committee, Sir Turi Carroll, has announced that £15,000 is to be spent on the Takitimu marae at Wairoa, the central marae of Ngati Kahungunu. A large part of the money will be spent on a new dining hall and kitchen facilities. The dining hall will be of modern design but will including traditional Maori features, including tukutuku work on the walls. Twenty-three members of an Anglican youth club in Feilding recently became the first Pakeha party of official guests ever to visit the Pakaraka Pa at Maxwell, north-west of Wanganui. The leader of the group was the Rev. Broughton, who lived at Maxwell until his ordination in 1964. The visitors slept in the meeting-house and learnt Maori traditions and etiquette.