Pewha Taura, elder of Raetihi, addresses a meeting in the new hall. Both these community centres are in full use now. That means a great deal. It is good to be able to go to an attractive hall on a Sunday and play indoor bowls and to gather there in the evening to listen to a guest speaker or have a meeting or dance. It is good for the youth club to have a centre for its activities. The Raetihi committee's interests were very wide. In order to carry out all the functions for which they were set up by statute, they parcelled out the functions between the different committee members. In this the welfare officers—Messrs Awatere and Puohotaua—gave a helping hand as they thought that by this system of ‘portfolios’ committees could widen their activities considerably. These included fund-raising, entertainment, sports and social work. Housing, of course, remained a key portfolio. In 1952. Mrs Jean Rerekura, then a member of the tribal committee specialising in housing, made a survey of housing conditions and reported to the Department of Maori Affairs in Wanganui, twenty-four cases of families badly housed and desiring better conditions. At the end of 1955, nine of these families were in better accommodation or waiting for houses to be built for them through the department. Of the other fifteen families, six have left the district. There is no doubt that great improvement has occurred and although this is not solely due to the committee's work, there On a Sunday afternoon Sam Arahanga is at the hall for a game of indoor bowls.