The late Sir Apirana's dream of a fund to help Maori veterans and their descendants has come true at last. MAORI SOLDIERS' FUND —brings relief to the old, opportunity to the young— PUTEA MONI MA NGA HOIA MAORI Kua maha nga marama inaianei e utua ana ki nga hoia Maori o te Pakanga Tuatahi he moni takoha no roto i te Putea Moni Ma Nga Hoia Maori kei raro i te whakahaere a te Kai-Tiaki Maori. E ono tekau ma toru nga tono i tae mai ki te Tari i mua atu o te 15 o Tihema, 1953, a e wha tekau ma whitu i utua hei awhina i nga hoia koroheke i kitea e ahua mate ana, e ahua he ana te noho. Ko te nuinga o aua takoha e £50, ehara i te mea aua takoha hei awhina whare mahi paamu, mo etahi atu whakahaere mahi ranei, engari, hei awhina ke, hei whakamama i te ahua tonu o te noho o aua hoia kua koroheketia. I raro i tenei ritenga, kotahi anake te utunga i neke atu i tenei, ara, ko te £100 i utua ki te putea moni mo te tohu whakamaharatanga ki a Ta Te Rangihiroa Buck, ko ia nei i tua atu i te mea ko ia nei tetahi a nga tino tangata matau, ko ia tonu te kaihautu tuatahi o te Ropu Hoia Maori o te Pakanga Tuatahi, a ko ia tonu hoki te takuta tuatahi o taua ropu. I waho atu i te awhina ki nga hoia Maori e ahua he ana te noho, he maha atu nga whakamahinga totika o nga moni i roto i taua Putea. I te tau 1952, i te whai i nga tohutohu Grants to needy maori veterans of the First World War have been made for some months now out of the Maori Soldiers' Fund, administered by the Maori Trustee. Sixty-three applications were received up to December 15, 1953, and forty-seven were granted, affording help to veterans in needy circumstances and facing financial difficulties. As a general rule, these grants are confined to a maximum of £50, and made not to help with housing, farming and the establishment of businesses, but purely to alleviate distress. To this rule, so far only one exception has been made, namely a grant of £100 towards the memorial to the late Sir Peter Buck, who was, apart from being a famous scientist and leader, the first Maori commander of the Maori (Pioneer) Battalion in the First World War, and its first medical officer. Quite apart from assistance to needy veterans, the fund has many beneficial uses. In 1952 following the recommendations of many veterans, a grant of £5000 was made to the Ngarimu, V.C. and 28th Maori Battalion Scholarship Fund. Last year, again with much popular support, legislation was passed authorizing the Maori Trustee to use a portion of moneys