CROSSWORD PUZZLE NO. 18 ACROSS 1. This place name may mean the same as 21 down 8. Confused 12. Worn by women on ceremony 13. Educate 14. To squeeze 15. The Arawas would say Kare 16. Working-bee 17. Coldness 18. Namely 20. Compensated 21. Print 22. Tukutuku pattern 24. Adjective (pl.) 26. Dumb 27. Communicate 28. Mountain peak 31. It personifies light (myth.) 32. To strike 33. A famous marae 37. Gather 38. To shake 39. Dispersal 42. Heart-wood of a tree 43. Him (East-coast dialect) DOWN 1. With Ake it would mean soon 2. Carriage 3. Ford Motors excels in this line 4. Clash 5. A celebrated lover used one of these (abbr.) 6. Veil 7. When 8. A small moth. 9. Te Rauparaha married her 10. Possessive Pronoun 11. The circumstances of drawing out 15. To cut repeatedly 19. This conveys a certain tree afire (2 words) 21. An early missionary site named after a celebrated mat 23. Sand 25. Form of negation (abbr.) 27. Shelter 29. A nuisance 30. Strangle 31. Procrastinate 34. Prop 35. There 36. Rubbish 40. Inquire 41. Introduces a story It is expected that a boarding hostel for about 60 primary and secondary girl pupils and young Maori women in New Plymouth will be completed next year. Built by the Methodist Church with a government subsidy, it will be the largest Maori hostel in existence. * * * A scheme for drainage of the Whakaki lands, near Wairoa, was worked out recently, with Maori land owners lending the money (£5,000) for the work to proceed. The scheme affects Whakaki village and the flat lands surrounding it. Miss Phyllis Rudolph of Towai, Northland, left New Zealand last March to become a Methodist missionary teacher in the Solomon Islands. Her engagement is for four years. * * * Major Reiwhatu Vercoe, speaking at the graveside of the late Padre Henare Wepiha Wainohu, told that at Gallipoli he saw the padre polishing a revolver. ‘That is not your weapon, padre.’ he said. The padre looked up and replied: ‘Now I am a Maori first and a parson afterwards.’