I said matching corduroy slacks, or a boy driving a canary yellow car dressed in the same colour. As I am the first American Field Scholarship foreign student Redwood City has had, I am on a fuss and am kept very busy visiting people. San Francisco, about twenty-eight miles away, is a fascinating city. There is Chinatown (the largest Chinese City out of China); Fishermen's Wharf where the small fishing boats unload their hauls of fish and where bait for the tourist in the guise of shell ornaments and toys is offered outside restaurants which sell wonderful fish and other sea foods; the crazy little cable cars which rattle up the steep streets and screech down the other side with the pasengers clutching the rails, the conductor, each other, anything; the Golden Gate Bridge, and most important of all—Blums. Of all the great stores in San Francisco, Blums is my favourite—here is sold all the gooey, rich, unwholesome, fattening, wonderful food that I love. I am having a wonderful time. Everyone is so kind and so willing to show me their part of America. I have been taken on picnics, motor trips, hikes, and have been into homes and really made to feel one of the family. This is a wonderful land.

In the News The Te Ao Hou cup for the best-kept Maori home garden in Hauraki went to Mrs J. F. Martin, Whitianga in December last year. This was the first time that the cup, donated by Mr and Mrs Stanley Wyborn, has been competed for. The judge, Mr H. O. McWalker, Field Supervisor, Pareoa, was impressed with the excellent standard of all entries. Unusual feature of the winner's garden was a hangi, complete with stones, on the lawn. * * * The outstanding young Maori tennis player. Miss Ruia Morrison, of Rotorua, who is a student teacher in Auckland now, has been selected by the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association's management committee as one of a team to tour Australia next October and November * * * The Rev J. T. Tamahori and Mrs Tamahori have returned to Tonga after spending most of their three months' furlough in Rotorua. Mr Tamahori is a former vicar of St Faiths Church, Chinemutu, and he is now the head of the Anglican Mission and principal of the Anglican school in Tonga. At the school he has a staff of 12 Tongans and two pakehas, and there are 417 pupils. Mrs Tamahori is also a teacher there. The school, called St Andrew's, takes children through from Primary school to the Tongan Higher Leaving Certificate. Mr Tamahori said he found it easy enough reading the church services in Tongan, but it was about 18 months before he felt he could preach in that language.

Photo: Miles Wislang Raukawa League Celebrates Third Birthday Photography, library work and teaching are among the new activities undertaken over the last year by the Raukawa District Council of the Maori Women's Welfare League. All these things were told in a very businesslike report from the secretary, Mrs J. Cowan, read at the annual progress day of the council at Aorangi Pa, Feilding, on Saturday, February 18. The great event in the area had been the work on the Bulls meeting house. Many of the women in several leagues had helped in the tukutuku and other craft work under the tutorship of Mr and Mrs Henare Toka. The leagues had also brought school children to the classes given by the Tokas. The district council had raised almost £500 for a projected community centre in Palmerston North. Further money was raised for the Peter Buck Memorial Fund and for the M.W.W.L. Conference fund. The display of work from the various branches for the first time included photographs. The main items, as usual were taniko, kits, whariki, produce, preserves, cakes and needlework. The Ngatokowaru Branch, Levin, won the competition for displays. Mrs Webber, of the Waikanae Branch, reported that her members had taken a great part in the work of the local Parent-Teachers' Association and that a free library had been started by the league. Other activities organised by the leagues were adult education classes, in conjunction with Maori Adult Education officer Mr W. Parker, hospital visits and housing surveys. There are also plans for Maori language teaching among girl guides and for establishing a badge for proficiency in Maori. PRINTED BY THE PEGASUS PRESS, 14 OXFORD TERRACE, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND