The marae, with Mahinarangi and the King's house (Turongo) in the background. between dining room and pantry is elaborately carved—in fact, it is one of the finest carvings in the hall. One looks admiringly at the precious table mats, the splendid tukutuku, and the richness of every detail; no labour was too great. The impression is of a monumental work, especially as one finds it among the Maoris of that district where the collecting of money for communal projects—at least until fairly recently—was enormously difficult, because there simply was no money. Most of the King's Pa was built by free labour on a most extensive scale. For long, what money was spent had to come from sources like the ‘Whitebait Fund’, accumulated by Ngati Tipa and Ngataierua fishermen, who put aside a penny for each pound of whitebait they sold. The careful maintenance of Koroki's house with its roomy halls, its well-appointed kitchen, and beautiful grounds, is an act of continuous devotion and homage to their King on the part of the Pa inhabitants. But far more activity is seen than mere maintenance. On the Saturday morning of my visit a truck arrived with bricks for a garage; men were finishing a new wharepuni ‘Pare Hauraki’ for visitors to the annual Coronation Day gatherings—the lining was just being put in. The carvers had finished their work, but the slabs were still in the workshop. Everyone seemed confident the house would be finished by October. These wharepuni, of which three are already complete, are in themselves fully fledged meeting-houses, although the decoration inside is simple, in accordance with their function—that of sleeping-houses. In the carvers' workroom there Treasures at Mahinarangi: in the foreground, King Tawhiao.