Drafting at Wallace Tako's station near Ruatoria. and Cairo he stayed at Rome for a week before flying to London, arriving there on June 1, the day before the Coronation. For the Coronation procession he had a third-storey window seat. When he could not actually see the procession he could watch it on television. The millions of people milling around London that day made an impressive contrast in Mr Tako's mind to the isolated East Coast settlements. Just before the Coronation procession arrived it was announced that the New Zealander, Edmund Hillary, had climbed Mt. Everest. At this, the people nearby patted the Maori visitor on the head. In the days following the Coronation he went to garden parties at Buckingham Palace and to the races at Ascot. New Zealand House arranged for these visits. He spent about a month in London doing the sights. During that time he spent a memorable day with Lord and Lady Bledisloe. A Scottish tour followed, inlcuding visits to Edinburgh and Aberdeen. After that he returned to London before flying to Paris for four days. At New Zealand House in Paris, the Charge D'Affaires, Miss Jean McKenzie, showed him the teko teko which once belonged to Titokowaru, famous Maori fighting chief. Miss McKenzie got the carvings and some historical papers from a French museum and intended sending them back to New Zealand. From Paris he entrained for Berne, Switzerland. After that there was a whirl of Continental travel, including Zurich (three days), Hanover, Berlin, Brussels and Rotterdam. Then back to England and over to Ireland, where he went on tour before returning to England. From London he flew to New York (four days), Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Coming home he flew to Honolulu, where he stayed a week with a well-known Maori minister, the Rev Manu Bennett. While in France and America Mr Tako was often asked how it was that in New Zealand a native had been able to prosper as he had. His reply was “the Treaty of Waitangi”, under which the Maori people were guaranteed the right to their lands.