The carvers at the Auckland Community Centre pay periodic visits to the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Carvers of the future particularly in the cities, will need to depend on museums a good deal for it is there that many of the most precious monuments of the Maori cultural heritage are stored. There are also excellent modern carvings in the museums, such as this one by T. Heberley: a pare for the carved house Te Hau ki Turanga, in the Dominion Museum, Wellington. Tom Heberley was formerly employed as a carver in the museum, his main work being the carving of the top sides of two war canoes, one in the Dominion Museum and one in the Canterbury Museum. (NPS Photograph) Education to back Maori Arts and Crafts to the hilt, and the demand from Maori communities for instruction on the other hand, forced the tutor concerned to seek for some form of compromise. The result was the setting up of an Academy of Maori Arts and Crafts at the Maori Community Centre in Auckland, under the part-time tutorship of Mr and Mrs Henare Toka. This first Academy continued for a limited period and met once a week like any ordinary Adult Education class. The tutors were paid by Adult Education with a grant that was made by the Hon. E. B. Corbett from the Maori Purposes Fund. Material and equipment were supplied by the Waitemata Tribal Executive from funds it gained through functions held at the Maori Community Centre. Even in this first attempt, there was a connection with a scheme to provide decorations for the interior parts of the Maori Community Centre. Carvings and kowhaiwhai patterns were meant to be placed there when completed. In addition the Academy taught taniko work to some very interested pakeha and Maori students. The most elaborate academy, after this preliminary experience, was set up among the Ngati Ranginui people of Judea, Tauranga. The motive was the desire of the local community to construct a carved meetinghouse in fulfilment of the dream of many of their kaumatuas, who had I already secured the timber for this purpose from their own bush at Akeake, Tauranga. The Academy comprised three sections-carvers, tuku-tuku workers and kowhaiwhai artists—each section under an elected head. The directors were Mr and Mrs Henare Toka the part-time tutors with Adult Education in Auckland. They visited the