—they have secret sources of dancing partners who are a great rarity. The chairman is August Honata, from Opotiki, whose talents as a showman were developed as a member of the Torere Youth Club. Will the workers stay when the mill opens and will all this community activity be kept alive? On that question, it is possible to be reasonably hopeful. Tasman's personnel officer, Mr Stoneham, has visited the Maori settlements to discuss employment at the mill for people within travelling distance. Te Ao Hou asked the company's general manager, Mr Maurice L. Hobday, what the prospects of the Maori people will be. Mr Hobday expressed particular interest in giving the local people whose land he had bought the fullest opportunity to get permanent and well-paid employment for themselves and their children. He also hoped that Maoris from other parts of New Zealand would look to Tasman for work in its newsprint—paper, pulp and timber mills. ‘Above all I hope,’ said Mr Hobday, ‘that many young Maori men will show themselves keen to learn the highly skilled craft of paper-making. ‘For five generations my family have been paper-makers, and my son intends to become a paper-maker. I am proud that I shall be responsible for training New Zealanders in the craft and I should be happy to think that there will be Maori families in which there will be the tradition of son following father as a skilled paper-maker.’ This should give food for thought, together with the fact that about 450 State houses and 50 company houses are available for people from all over New Zealand who get jobs with Tasman and have families. These jobs and homes will be offered to tradesmen of all sorts—skilled sawmill workers will be specially sought after—as well as young men to be thoroughly trained by Canadian experts in pulp and paper making. For paper-makers educational standard is not so important; the Company wants bright workers of good physical build whose history shows that they are stable and reliable. Payment will be fairly high, particularly because of the round-the-clock shift system which that for an average 42-hour week a worker gets an average 53 ¼ payment hours as well as shift allowances. There is also to be a pension scheme, a company doctor, an industrial nurse and an accident prevention officer. The Company is interested in helping the town in establishing a full and healthy community life and has, to this end, appointed a welfare officer. Maori participation in life at Kawerau may, considering all this, be quite considerable and it looks as if living conditions will be most favourable. Many young people, particularly from the Bay of Plenty and East Coast districts, may decide to settle in Kawerau rather than Auckland, and this, particularly for married couples, may be the better way of life in many cases. E. Schwimmer

IN THE NEWS Keith Davis, All Black and Auckland rugby halfback, was the outstanding Maori rugby player in New Zealand again last season and won the Tom French Cup for the third year in succession. During the season Davis captained the New Zealand Maori team which toured Fiji and played a number of matches in the North Island. * * * Captain of the Auckland team which took part in the 1954 women's indoor basketball championships at Wellington was a Maori woman, Mrs May Smith, who besides being a star basketball player is also a grandmother. Mrs Smith has represented Auckland at the national championships since 1949, and her club, Akarana, has missed winning the Auckland provincial title only once in recent years. Her daughter, Violet Watling, was a prominent member of the Auckland B team at the championships. * * * A Maori rugby league forward, J. Yates, of Auckland, was a member of the New Zealand team which took part in a world series of matches in France in November. He is a son of the 1922 New Zealand rugby league representative, Moses Yates. * * * At the 1954 skiing championships at Mount Ruapehu a national women's skiing title, for the giant slalom event, was won by Miss Dora Davies, a young Maori woman. Miss Davies has been head waitress at the Chateau Tongariro for the past five years, and she has been a keen skier for most of this time. * * * A leading Latin-American dance demonstrator in Britain is a Maori. Mr John Delroy, who is reputed to be the best demonstrator of the paso doble in the country. * * * A new Maori school was opened recently at Pukemoremore. It is mainly attended by children of the settlers of Pukemoremore Maori Land Development Scheme. Its roll is expected to be 80.