TOP: A party from Oaonui give a haka on the marae at Manukorihi Pa, Waitara, where Sir Peter Buck's ashes rested for one night on their journey to Okoki. (Photograph—John Ashton). A HAKA to honour Te Rangihiroa This haka was performed at Waitara on August 8, before His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Willoughby Norrie, and his family, by the Oaonui and Coastal young people's clubs. It was composed by Lt.-Col. Arapeta Awatere, closely following a traditional model, and honours the memory of late Te Rangihiroa. Te Ao Hou saw the haka group being trained. The teacher was a welfare officer who had travelled 45 miles to be present. The pupils, about sixty, were boys and girls from the local farms and factories. The rehearsal lasted from eight until midnight without interruption. For the first three hours the teacher took the boys' haka, and the girls, on the other side of a partition in the hall, sang and danced furiously, working up their action song. The teacher assured me he used the traditional Maori teaching method, which seems to consist in exciting in the group the emotion appropriate to the dance, and then leaving the members free to express this emotion in their own way. Technique is not forgotten. In the haka, said the tutor, young people should always kep their feet apart. Older ones, he inferred, could introduce any appropriate variations they fancied. And, ‘keep your eyes above your audience all the time until you are old enough to look at them’. For Maori youth is shy and to display the full excitement of the haka takes boldness … or lack of self-consciousness. Training in reciting the words precedes the teaching of the actions. Points of elocution are vigorously stressed—‘Pronounce the last syllable of a word, open your mouth,’—and the teacher prances in front of his group in a fierce haka with his finger pointing at his wide open RIGHT: The haka group being trained. (Photograph—National Publicity Studios).