The chapel window. Pupil of Turakina College. It has sincerity, simplicity and at the same time a warmth and richness always typical of Maori interiors. Like the other Maori churches, the outside has no Maori features. The structure too is European. The fine tukutuku panels in the chapel are the girls' own work although some expert crafts-women of the district helped them. It was started in 1943 when the Rt Rev J. G. Laughton laid the foundation stone. The carving was done by a party from the Bay of Plenty, led by Barney Rangitauira of Waiohau. The figure work is very vivid and expressive in places.

JUBILEE OPENING The opening of the Chapel last December served to mark the fiftieth jubilee of the college and the close of the first hundred years of Maori Mission work by the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The first eight pupils were in residence in the manse at Turakina in 1905. The building was opened that year by the Rt Hon R. J. Seddon. In 1928 the present school at Marton replaced the manse. Its present capacity is 56 pupils. At first the college offered only a primary school course but after the transfer to Marton the school gradually became wholly secondary. After 1940, the girls began sitting for the school certificate examination. The main object of the school however, in