efforts of the local elder, Mr Jim Hurinui. At the date of Te Ao Hou's visit the frame of a new meeting-house was also standing on the marae site; the iron roofing for this building was already stacked in the dining-hall. It appears this meeting-house is due to be opened in March. If the people can find an instructor to teach them carving, it will be a carved meeting-house, too. The community also has an active young people's club, led by Mr Tukupuau. This club meets three times a week, learning haka, action songs and the Maori language. Each pa has its own girls' basketball team. The women, about the same time as the dining-hall was built, formed a branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League; it was the first one of the Muaupoko tribe. Later, other branches started and there is now a Muaupoko District Council, with three branches. It is an active organisation, and held an attractive crafts exhibition last January at the Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Levin. The Kawiu branch has a full programme: they have Mrs Taueki, who teaches the younger people the Maori language; all meetings are held in that language, and the secretary, Mrs McMillan, told Te Ao Hou she always writes the minutes in Maori, in which she is now quite experienced. They also have an arrangement with other branches to help each other with the entertainment of visitors. These women have a keen enthusiasm for the Maori crafts. They must be spending most of their time thinking about the moment they can get back to that dining-hall with some flax. This enthusiasm is partly, no doubt, due to the force of the Welfare League movement, but at least as much to the wonderful inspiration of Polly. Polly, or to give her real name, Parekohatu Tihi, is a direct descendant of Major Kemp. She is a real artist, whose hands are never happy unless they are making something beautiful. Now she has reached a fine old age, and does little other than weaving. Her great aim is to weave the mats for the new meeting-house. The other ladies collect and prepare the flax for her, and with no care for her weariness, she works at them all day. One large mat takes her a fortnight, which would be quick work for a much younger woman, and her patterns are always, flawless, regular and harmonious. Yet Polly believes in the forty-hour week. She starts work every morning immediately after breakfast. At five o'clock she says: ‘It is time to knock off now.’