te tono a Kakatarau kia ngakia te mate o tona matua o Pakura, i mate ki te riri i Wharekura, i te tau 1829, ka haere katoa nga iwi mai i Wairarapa ki Wharekahika ara Hicks Bay. I Nukutaurua e noho ana a Ngati-Kahungunu noho ana, i te wihi i a Te Heuheu, i a Waikato. I raro nga iwi i Nukutauroa i a te Wera Hauraki o Ngapuhi, a i tae hoki a Te Wera ki Toka-a-kuku. I tuhituhia e Mohi Turei nga korero o Toka-a-kuku ki Te Pipiwharauroa. Kore rawa he tangata i whakahe. Hikurangi, ko te maunga tino teitei o te Tairawhiti, e 5,606 putu te teitei, kei runga, e ai te korero, te waka o Maui a Nukutaimemeha e taupoki ana. Otiki, ko te puke i East Cape. Tiakitai, he rangatira nui no Heretaunga i haere i roto i te ope ki Toka-a-kuku. Kahore he rangatira i ngaro atu, i haere katoa. I haere ano a Te Kani-a-Takirau. Pape, he ingoa iti tenei no Kakatarau. Ko nga tangata korero i Te Toa Takitini e mahara ki te tautohe a tetahi tangata o te Whanau-a-Apanui kua mate i ki ai ia ehara i a Kakatarau te upoko o te haere ki Toka-a-kuku. I oho ai te totohe na te korero a Paraire Tomoana i tae a Kakatarau ki Nukutaurua ki te whakataka i nga iwi kia haere ki Toka-a-kuku Ki te ngaki i te mate o tana matua o Pakura. Kaore tenei korero i te whakahe. Kati ano tena, no muri i te matenga o taua tangata ka kitea tana korero whakahe mo Kakatarau i roto i te pukapuka a te pakeha, i huaina ko Historic Poverty Bay, na konei kahore i taea te whakautu ana korero. He tipuna noku a Kakatarau, na konei hoki au i whai wahi ai ki tenei, take. Ki te pakeha he tapu tenei mea te hitoria kahore e tika kia whakariroia ketia. He mea tino nui ki te pakeha te hitoria. No te tau 1836 te riri ki Toka-a-kuku, ko te mutunga tera o te riri i waenganui o Ngati-Porou me te Whanau-a-Apanui. E rima nga riri o mua atu ahakoa kotahi ano te take mai o enei iwi. Tukiterangi, kei te ngaro tenei korero. * * * * Bay his biased version of the expedition, knowing full well that his opponents would not be able to reply to him. Pape, mentioned by the composer of the song and also by Sir Apirana Ngata in his comments on the song, was a popular name for Kakatarau. Our critic was an educated man and should have been familiar with the song. The Toka-a-kuku fight was the last conflict between Ngati Porou and the Whanau-a-Apanui, who strangely enough were both descended from one common stock. The fight took place in 1836. The composer of the song was an ancestress of Arnold Reedy of Ruatoria. Kakatarau was the writer's grand-uncle, elder brother of Mokena Kohere, his grandfather. Kopu, the planet Venus, sometimes called Tawera. Hikurangi, the highest mountain in the Ngati Porou territory—altitude 5,606 feet. According to Ngati Porou tradition Maui's canoe, Nukutaimemeha was stranded on Hikurangi, and is to be seen there today in the form of a rock upturned in a lake (pond). Otiki, the hill at East Cape, on which today stands a lighthouse. Tiakitai, a great Hawkes Bay chief, thus showing that the statement is correct that all chiefs from Wairarapa to Hicks Bay responded to Kakatarau's invitation to avenge the death of his father, Pakura, who was killed while storming Wharekura pa near Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty, in 1829. Tukiterangi, an allusion now forgotten. * * * During Easter the Maori Dictionary Revision Commission met at Gisborne and decided to reprint the Dictionary as it is, together with several hundred new Maori words which had been collected by Sir Apirana Ngata, Elsdon Best and other earlier authorities on the Maori language. The Maori Dictionary was last revised in 1917, and a straight-out reprint of that edition was made in 1932. The committee hopes to have the new revised edition in the hands of the Government Printer by the end of this year. * * * The successful candidates in Maori Studies I in last November's degree examinations were: T. J. Calvert, D. L. Chapple, Arapera H. Kaa, R. H. Koroheke, W. Tawhai and D. M. Rikihana, all of Auckland University College; and Horowai Ngarimu, who was a student at the Wellington Teachers' Training College and took the university subject extramurally. * * * The Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls in Auckland last year achieved a hundred per cent pass in the University Entrance examination. All four girls in the sixth form sat and passed the examination. Three of these girls are this year students at the Auckland Teachers' Training College. They are Toi Te Rito, of Masterton, Alice Angell, of Cape Runaway, and Grace Henare, of Motatau. The fourth girl, Zena Reid, of Mangonui, is waiting for a vacancy to train as a bacteriologist.