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Story Competition Manuscripts are invited from Maori groups and individuals to compete for the first TE AO HOU LITERARY PRIZES to be awarded on March 1 of next year. Two prizes of ten guineas each will be awarded for the best stories received at this office by February 1. One of the prizes will be for a story in English, the other for a story in Maori. The judges will be: Mr W. Parker, Mr E. Nepia and Miss M. Petricevich. Stories must have a length of about 2,000 to 3,000 words. They may have any subject based on life in a Maori community in country, town or city at the present day, or in the recent past. Persons and places may be either true or fictional. Apart from the two winning entries, the most suitable stories submitted will be published in Te Ao Hou and paid for at normal rates. Certificates will be issued to the winners of the competition, and also for the best entry from each district council of Maori Women's Welfare Leagues and from adult education groups, in each of the adult education provinces. It is hoped that the stories will help to increase awareness of what Maori life to-day really is; such awareness will undoubtedly be of the greatest help for the future. Send manuscripts to: The Editor, Te Ao Hou, P.O. Box 2390, Wellington.

HE WHAKA TAE TAE TUHITUHI HEI TE 5 O NGA ra o te Maehe e tu mai nei ka tukua te paraehe mo te Whakataetae Tuhituhi tuatahi a Te Ao Hou. Na reira e te iwi manaakitia tenei whakaaro o ta tatou pepa. E rua nga paraehe £10 10s. i te mea kotahi ka tukua ki nga tangata tino marama ta raua na whakatakoto i te tuhi o te korero a kia tae mai aua tuhituhi ki tenei tari a te 1 o nga ra o Pepuere. Kotahi te paraehe mo tetahi tuhituhi reo Maori a kotahi mo te tuhi Pakeha. Ko nga Tiati mo tenei whakataetae ko Mr W. Parker, ko Mr E. Nepia a ko Miss M. Petricevich. Kia 2000 ki te 3000 kupu te roa o ia tuhituhi. Ko te kaupapa o te korero me haere i runga i te noho a te Maori i tuawhenua i nga taone ranei a te noho ranei a te Maori i nga ra o na tata ake nei. Kei nga kaituhi te whakaaro me korero purakau noa nga korero me korero tika tonu ranei. Ko nga korero e whiwhi ki te paraehe ka panuitia ki Te Ao Hou a ka utua nga kaituhi ka whakawhiwhia hoki nga toa o tenei whakataetae ki te tiwhikete honore raua me nga kaituhi o nga ropu penei me to Nga Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora, Ropu whakaakoako mahi mo te hunga pakeke me era atu ropu e raroto a ratou na korero ki nga tiati. Ko te tumanako ma nga mahi me tenei whakataetae tuhituhi e whakaatu te noho tuturu a te Maori hei matakitaki ma te tangata toena pea tona hua o enei tu mahi.