Coming of the Maori (1948). This book in itself is a romance, and grew from a lecture with the same title given at Cawthron Institute in 1925, which summarized some phases of Maori history and culture. The lecture was later reprinted by the Board of Maori Ethnological Research, and years later the Maori Purposes Fund Board proposed another reprint as it was being used as reading matter in the subjects of Maori and anthropology for the B.A. degree of the University of New Zealand. Peter was asked if he had any alterations or additions to make to the original lecture and, he says, ‘In an optimistic mood I offered to write a book in place of the original lecture.’ The offer was accepted, but World War II and various other responsibilities delayed the fulfilment of his promise. “The seedling planted in 1925 has grown somewhat in twenty-odd years, but it retains its old title …” he said. At the time of his death Peter was engaged on what he would have regarded as a labour of great love … a tribute to repay in some degree the debt he felt he owed to Bishop Museum and its founder, Charles R. Bishop, who was married to Bernice Pouahi, the last of the Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaii. Bishop was Hawaii's first banker. He amassed a fortune and the Museum was established as a memorial to his wife who predeceased him. It is known that Peter had prepared most of his material on Hawaiian arts and crafts before he visited New Zealand, and that for a few months prior to his death he was assembling more, but it is not clear whether his work had reached the stage where it was ready for the printers. It seems apparent that this monograph will be published posthumously. Doubtless it will stand as a memorial to the institution to which he brought added lustre, and through which he gained world distinction and honour. All his scholastic honours, awards, medals and diplomas have been bequeathed to his old college, Te Aute—surely no finer gesture could have been made by any old boy, and nothing finer could he have done to inspire others to follow the lead he and other distinguished old boys have established. Indeed, if in this way he remembered his old college, which subsequently opened so many other portals to him, might not others make their contributions? Ka pu te ruha Ha hao te rangatahi. ‘The old net is laid aside, and the new net goes afishing,’ was a proverb Peter quoted frequently when he was last in his homeland. He used it, too, for the finish of his memorial ‘Vikings of the Sunrise’. This is the Maori chant he liked best of all: Piki mai, kake mai Homai te waiora ki au E tutehua ana te moe a te kuia I te po, po, i rarua ai a Wairaka Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea! ‘Come hither, draw nigh. Bring unto me the living waters of life. Ah! Troubled has been the rest of the aged in the night, But now it is down! It is down! It is light!’