ROYAL RECEPTION AT ROTORUA The lookout in his puhara will shout a warning and three warriors will advance with their taiahas, ready to challenge the ‘intruder’: the most illustrious visitor to step on to any Maori marae. When Her Majesty the Queen picks up the twigs of peace from the grass at Arawa Park, Rotorua, on January 2 next year, it will be the signal for the greatest of Maori welcomes. More than 15,000 Maori people, it is expected, will be assembled to greet her. They include more than 2000 for whom the Government is providing food and transport and who will be acting as hosts to outside visitors. In addition, 200 Maori leaders have been invited to Rotorua as the Government's guests. For many months on the East Coast, in the Bay of Plenty, at Rotorua and Taupo, and among the Taihauauru people to the west, preparations have been made for the songs and dances with which scores of Maori men and women, boys and young maidens will salute and entertain their sovereign. Her Majesty will arrive at the park at 2.45 p.m. and her car will halt at the end of a long arena, made by uniting the ‘straight’ and the lawns before the grandstands. There she will be greeted by the Minister of Maori Affairs, and presented with a bouquet by a Maori girl. Then, following the challenge and the acceptance of the people, she will advance slowly up the lawn while 140 warriors of Te Arawa and Ngati-Tuwharetoa perform three war dances: Uhi uhi mai te waero, a peruperu; Koia ano koia ano, and waikurekure ha. They will be