Darts is one of the social activities at Mangakino in which Tuhoe club members take full part. Here are Mac Moses (left) and Bill Waiwai (right) taking their turn. (Photo: J. Fun) written when the club had just started on its programme of practising action songs and hakas, making piupiu, and community singing; and with the experiment of allowing beer to be drunk on certain club evenings under adequate control. After a year when we visited the club, none of the original enthusiasm had gone; tribal committee and wardens were very confident about the success of allowing moderate drinking during some of their club nights. They had managed to cope with the very few who had broken the club rules. Te Wiremu Waiwai, the warden, and a foreman rigger by trade, explained that in his view people have to be educated in proper drinking habits. In matters of drink, education is as necessary as in other things. When people see civilised drinking and a good standard of social life at the club, it inspires them to live up to that standard always.

Many Forms of Music Various speakers stood up that evening to describe the club's educational activities. They were so many that it seemed incredible for a group of men and women on a public works project to attempt such a programme. Of the European fields of knowledge, the club concentrates on community singing, band music and dressmaking. People are taught to read music according to the solfa scale. On the Maori side, there are now not only action songs and hakas, but also pao and patere; they play stick games; they have learnt the proper way of making piupiu and taniko. Where do they get their lecturing staff from? They hardly go outside their own circle but everyone tells the others what he knows. They are always looking round for people with talents; for instance, Mardi Taipeti had learned taniko at Turakina Girls College; so she was asked to be teacher. Taniko became part of the club programme. Mr Wari Ward, the chairman, learned music when he worked at the office at Ratana Pa (a fellow worker was learning music, and he followed his example) and led a choir and a string band at Ratana. He now teaches part singing at Mangakino. Mac Moses, who like Bill Waiwai is a foreman rigger, was taught the saxophone and clarinet from some Englishmen at the Tuai hydro settlement when he was very young; he has been working in music ever since, leading dance bands at Waikaremoana where his home is and elsewhere. Two of the Aotearoa Quartet now touring England were first trained by Mr Moses. At Mangakino he continues doing what he has always done: encouraging some of the boys to play instruments, and going to dances to play. Mr Waiwai's specialty on the other hand are the Maori arts and crafts. Yet the club invited experts where needed. (Continued on page 52)