* ‘Men generally are supporting the leagues. One particularly fine achievement resulting from co-operation between men and women has been the forming of a 2 ½-mile road from Te Huahua to Motukaraka Point in the north. The women hired a bulldozer, and the men cleared the scrub on the route. There are other instances.’ * ‘It is essential for district councils to meet monthly, and it is essential also that they have the monthly reports of all their branches before them at those meetings.’ The main work of the conference was done by four sub-committees—on housing: Chairwoman, Mrs Paki; education, Mrs Logan; general, Mrs Te Tau; and health, child welfare and employment, Mrs Tahiwi. In the discussions of remits in these sub-committees women from all parts of the country were able to meet in the common struggle to improve Maori living conditions. Representations to the government followed the same main lines as those of last year. It would seem that at last year's conference the league had mapped out a comprehensive programme of help to be asked from the Government, and that discussions mainly reaffirmed last year's representations. In the housing discussion great interest was shown in the Special Housing Fund, and the ways in which it could be used to help in the solution of the housing problem. Arts and crafts stand at the conference. Photo: National Publicity Studio. Other items expressed disappointment on the representation of the Maori race at the Coronation and pressing for a ‘full and proper’ part for the Maori race at the Royal visit. An interesting discussion was held on establishing a home for the care of orphans in New Plymouth with the help of the Maori Women's Welfare League. Sensible and healthy also was a recommendation to the Child Welfare Branch to try to place Maori children with relatives wherever possible, and another recommendation to the Vocational Guidance Branch to give some attention to Maori primary school children. The Rarawa-ki-Hokianga District Council asked for an X-ray unit for the Tokerau district. Here and there the remits showed promising signs of collaboration between the MWWL and other women's organisations. There is no doubt that the MWWL can be a real support to those organisations in issues of national interest. We are thinking of such remits as the one asking for a national standard of heating in schools. There was also a resolution passed that Te Ao Hou should give a review of scholarships available to Maoris. As it happened, such a review had already appeared in the Spring 1952 issue. For those who want this review a limited number of copies of that issue is still available at 1/6 per copy.