shot to her feet and completely vanished. In the evening I went to the Maori Centre in a tight fitted skirt with sleeveless blouse and my day rock 'n roll shoes. Here I was told to watch my behaviour. But inside I found the watching was being done for me by a bent-nosed character in a shapeless blue dress. When I sat down everyone glared my way. I had come in for an innocent dance. But because of the cut of my clothes I was feel like a criminal at large. Once a handsome lad gave me a ral snake look and muttered “I don't want Throughout the day I had been well- and polite. Yet, because of the cut of my I had been derided or avoided. Is it fair to regard every lass who widgie apparel as an anti-social no good

KOWHITIKARU by HOHEPA TOPA KO TAKU kaupapa korero mo runga i tetahi wahi e karangatia ana ko Kowhitikaru. He poto noa ake tenei korero, engari he pai, kia mohio ai koutou he aha tenei wahi i karangatia ai ko Kowhitikaru. Ko te timatanga o tenei korero me hoki ki nga wa o mua. I nga ra o mua i Ahipara tetahi pa e tu ana. Ko nga iwi o tenei pa he iwi tino kaha, a e rangona ana hoki i nga wahi katoa mo to ratou kaha ki te kai tangata. Ta ratou mahi hoki he haere ki nga wahi katoa whakaeke haere ai i nga pa katoa e tu ana i mua i a ratou. Ko te rangatira o tenei pa e karangatia ana ko Manuka. He tangai tino kino, a ko tona hoa rite tonu ki a ia. Heoi ano nga mea e pai ana ki a raua, ko a raua toa, na te mea e rite tonu ana ratou, he kaha ki te kai tangata. Me mea atu e ahau ki a koutou tetahi mahi i mahi ai raua. I tetahi wa i rongo a Manuka, kua tae etahi wahine ki te pa e haere ra hoki ratou. Ka mea atu a Manuka ki tona hoa ki a Matangi: “E Matangi, haere taua ki te tahae i etahi wahine ma taua, tino kuia rawa enei.” Ka whakaae hoki a Matangi; na ka haere raua. I to raua taenga atu ki te pa kua pouri, na ka tatari raua kia moemoe nga tangata. I to raua mohiotanga kua moemoe nga tangata, ka haere raua ki te whare moe o nga wahine, a tahaetia ana toko wha, mauria ana ki to raua pa. I to raua taenga atu ki te pa, ka whakatika hoki raua ko tehea mana. Ki te kore nga wahine e pai ki a raua, kua patu hoki raua i o raua puku. Na, kua kite hoki koutou i te kino o enei tangata. I tetahi wa ka rongo a Manuka tana taurekareka e karanga ana, i kite ia i etahi waka e haere mai ana ki uta. Ka karanga a Manuka i ana tangata kia huihu. I te taenga mai o nga waka ki uta, ka rere atu a Manuka me ana tangata a patua ana nga toa katoa, ko nga wahine mauria ana hei taurekareka. He nui hoki te hari o I AM going to tell you the story of called Kowhitikaru. It is only a sh but one that would perhaps appeal to so Long ago there was a pa at Ahipara. pa lived people whose fame spread to winds because of their cannibalistic instinc their pa they sent out many ravaging pa The chief of the pa was called Man was a wicked man and so were all those at with him. Once Manuka and his party were o ravaging trip, news came to them that in the nearby pas there were some very women. Manuka thereupon planned to himself of some of these women and sai companions, “Let us set forth to get new for ourselves our present ones have bec and unattractive. Manuka's bosom friend Matangi ag they set forth. They arrived at the parti at night. They waited until the people ir were asleep, they went to where the worr asleep, and kidnapped four of them. WI arrived at their pa they alotted the women themselves. Any protest from the won immediately allayed by gestures to the ef if they dared resist they would find an resting place in the stomachs of their ca One day Manuka's slave gave the alarr effect that canoes were approaching. Manu moned his warriors together and as soon canoes landed—the men were all slain women taken into captivity. Manuka's j no bounds for that night there was a big Some two years after this event Manul of a pa at Hokianga a formidable pa as led to believe. He said to his followers tired of no war let us go forth to fight”, set out but when they reached Panguru tl pants of the pa had gone to Whirinaki. T