Maori women are taking an increasing interest in community affairs. At the Maori Community Centre, Auckland, Mr Waaka Clark, a Maori Welfare Officer, explains a point to the remits committee of the Maori Women's Welfare League. (Photograph—Vogue, Auckland). (Continued from page 9) Branch, which consists of a minimum of five members, and which sends two delegates to its District Council; then the Distrct Council, which sends two representatives to the Dominion Council, which elects an executive committee. The League Branch stands at the high-water mark of the League field work. It is the ground where experiments are carried out, where the conclusions of the Dominion Council are tested, and where the insight of the executive committee into Maori welfare problems is applied. In its activities, the Branch works on the first level of social welfare, that it, it aims to serve members of specific areas. Because of this, each Branch chooses work best suited to the circumstances and environment of its members. For example, the Branch of the Wellington city area, known as the Poneke Maori Women's League, appoints two members as official visitors to Arohata Borstal and the Alexandra Maternity Home. The Branch members offer to billet any parents visiting Maori girls in these two institutions, supply Christmas presents and Christmas cakes, materials for knitting and sewing, and send any girl celebrating her birthday a birthday cake. They also attempt a ‘follow-up’ of each girl through correspondence, though this is more difficult. This valuable and commendable work falls naturally to the lot of a city branch of the League. There is, however, a general overall pattern of activities for all League Branches. At their fortnightly meetings all branches learn and practise Maori arts and crafts, and some European ones as well. This part of the League's work is, naturally, of particular interest to Maori members, but has also drawn European women interested in Maori material culture into the League. Besides this, all branches conduct monthy meetings where homecraft competitions are held regularly to encourage interest in gardening, sewing, knitting, cooking, and home decoration. What members learn from each other in this way is