Many of the teachers at the Ardmore refresher course brought their wives, infant mistresses at the schools where their husbands teach. They were shown how to make dolls, paperbag puppets, concertino men, masks and other objects little children like to make because the making of these things is an ideal beginning to their education. Kua pa mai te hoha i te huhua o a tatau huihuinga nunui. E ki ana tetehi wahanga hihiko tonu o ngai-taua, he tawhitiwhiti rawa enei huihuinga, a, ko te wahanga nui tonu ano, te wahanga e titiro marika ana, e kite iho ana kaore i rereke ake ta taua noho, mai i tetehi hui ki tetehi hui. e ki ana, he maha rawa a tatau pahupahunga, he iti rawa e pahure ana. Na reira kia manawanui mai koutou, ina rere au, a Te Ao Hou, ki nga korero mo tetehi Hui Tino Nui ke noa ake, otira, ki ana whiriwhiringa i Poneke, i te rua tekau ma toru, ma wha hoki, o Noema ka taha ake nei, mo te ahuatanga o te matauranga totika mo te tamaiti Maori. E rua nga ra i runanga ai nga tangata nei, tekau ma rua ratau, etehi he Maori etehi he Pakeha, ki te whakakaupapa i te ahua o te matauranga hei whakaakoranga ki te reanga e tupu ake nei; ka whakatauria, kia kokiria a ratau whakaputatanga ke tanga hou, ki te Minita mo nga Kura. Ka mutu te hui, ka whakaaturia e te Minita tana tautoko i te putake o o ratau whakaaro. and decided to ask the Minister of Education to make some very fundamental changes. After the conference, the Minister made it known that in principle he agreed with the committee's resolutions and recommendations. To the Maori people the most important resolution to come from the conference, was the Committee's view that ‘the time is not yet opportune for any full-scale abolition of Maori schools’. Scarcely less important was the recommendation to make school committees responsible for the management of all Maori schools, in the same way as the committees acting under the Education Boards. The recommended appointment of an Officer for Maori Education was another great forward step as the same special attention given to the Maori background in Maori schools will now also be available to Maoris in Board schools. The committee's chairman was Mr D. G. Ball, whom many remember as the energetic senior inspector who did so much to modernize the Maori schools service in the 1930's. The conference was his last big achievement as Assistant Director of Education before he retired last Christmas: it gave him an opportunity, by way of a farewell, to realise many dreams he had had