Community Centre for Te Kuiti The Te Kuiti Maori Centre (Te Huinga) is rapidly becoming a community centre in the true sense of the word. It has become the venue for Maori Women's Welfare League, Temperance Union and various other types of meeting, is organizing classes in Maori culture (taniko to be taught by Mrs Tumohe, carving by Mr Eketone Tane), and provides a restroom and dining room for Maoris from the country visiting Te Kuiti. People can make their own cup of tea and the doors are always open. Until 1952, the Hall was owned by the Salvation Army which had dedicated it ‘to the Glory of God’. The Army would only sell it for a religious purpose, and disposed of it to the Methodist Church, which made it into a social, cultural and spiritual centre for the Maori people of Te Kuiti. A deaconess, Sister Grace Clement, lives there and looks after it. A committee which is half Maori and half Pakeha, manages it, under the benevolent chairmanship of Mr Gabriel Elliott. The Centre is, nevertheless, conducted without regard to denomination. Some of the furniture has been donated by the local M.W.W.L. Mr Elliott told Te Ao Hou that although the centre is often left open and unattended, there had never been trouble or wanton breakages.

Christmas Sermon Last Christmas, the Rev. Canon Wi Te Tau Huata of Te Kuiti held ten services between midnight and noon. With a driver, he started at Paeroa and worked west and south until he returned to Te Kuiti. Over 600 people attended the services, and at one place no fewer than 89 communicants attended a service held at three o'clock in the morning. At one place, no one turned up. He talked about abandoing the service but his companion asked him: ‘What's wrong with you?’ That question taught him a lesson. He conducted the service and preached a sermon, his congregation being his sleeping companion. People in the neighbourhood heard the service in progress and assumed that the building was full. When they saw the preacher and his companion coming out alone after the service, they literally cried with shame. Services held in that centre on subsequent dates became the best-attended on the circuit.

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