Above: A service was held at Putiki. Wanganui, just before the corrage departed. (PHOTOGRAPH—I. ASHTON) oration by answering those who had objected to Buck's going abroad. “Did he desert us when his heart was stirred by recollections of our past: when his ears were ringing with echoes from the dead?” The procession moved on from Otaki and on that Thursday night the ashes rested on the porch of the old meeting house at Putiki, built over eighty years ago by the great leader Te Kooti. On Friday, the ashes reached Manukorihi, the central pa of the Taranaki tribes, and by this time the followers had increased to a crowd of several hundreds. The dairy season had begun just a week earlier and many had to compromise between their work and the gatherings. If both suffered some what neither suffered cially. Was this the balance between Right: The Governor-General, Sir Willoughby Norrie, takes the salute at Manukorihi Pa as a large assembly sings the National Anthem.