helpfulness of the local wholesale merchants and the management of the Horotiu Freezing Works. Fresh meat and butter will be delivered each day to the host maraes, and there will be no shortages of bread and other groceries. Several tons of potato seed were planted early in the year at various places in the Bay of Plenty with the assistance of the Maori Affairs Department, and the crop will go a long way towards providing for the needs of the various maraes. TRANSPORT: The 200 official Government guests and the performers will be brought to their host maraes by train and bus under arrangement made by the Transport Sub-Committee. On the day of the reception they will be taken to the park and returned later to their maraes, and on the two following days they will be transported back to their homes. The transporting of these people from such a wide area will be difficult, but the sub-committee feels sure that it will have everybody in the right place at the right time. Mr J. H. Grace, organiser of Maori reception. (Publicity Studios Photograph.) BUILDINGS: The Buildings Sub-Committee has two main tasks: that of preparing Arawa Park for the Reception, and that of making and erecting the temporary accommodation required on the host maraes. The front panels of an old meeting-house have been cleaned and repaired, and will be erected to form the entrance to the marae on Arawa Park. In addition to the existing grandstands on the Park, temporary stands large enough to hold between 5000 and 6000 people are being built. The marae will be bounded on three sides by large grandstands, and the Royal dais will be at the other end of the marae, facing the entrance gate. With the large number of performers and spectators expected at the reception, provision is being made for them by providing food stalls on the Park. The St. John Ambulance Brigade will be in attendance at the Park, and will be staffing the First Aid posts which are being erected at various points. From all parts of the country the Maori people will flock to Rotorua. It will be not only a great gathering of the people, but a great opportunity for the strengthening of interest and enthusiasm in Maori dancing and singing. Between 1500 and 2000 will be performing. In the weeks ahead these expressions of their culture will take on new importance in their lives, and for the thousands—Maori and pakeha—who watch them, and for the millions more who will see them in action on cinema screens and television viewers, it will be the greatest display of our singing and dancing ever made.

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