campaign. He enlists workers to sell tickets to different business organisations and private individuals. It is really a popularity contest because the one who has the greatest number of workers is pretty sure to win. Thanks to my managers' hard work and a few sleepless nights I ended up Relay Queen, with my workers, although minus many gallons of petrol, very happy at the result. As Relay Queen for Central High I handed out trophies at the close of the two days meeting during which I had to sit on a dais in the middle of the track. At the end of May I graduated with my class and stood with the others honouring the American flag while our band played the Star Spangled Banner. At the end of my school year followed a hurried fortnight of slumber parties at which you ate, sang, played records, talked all night and generally did everything but slumber. Then there were the farewell parties, rushing around to say goodbye to everyone, and in between all this, packing or rather trying to cram twice as many belongings in the same number of cases. Leaving my family was very sad and I can never hope to repay them for the love and feeling of security they gave me, a lone Maori amongst lots of Americans all of Scandinavian descent and therefore about as far removed from the Maori as you can get. Once away from my town however, and amongst the group of 32 foreign students with whom I was

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The American Field Service or A.F.S. as it is called, is directed by Stephen Galatti, a New York business man and founded with the purpose of promoting international goodwill. It is a rapidly growing organisation and under its wing, foreign students from thirty countries are taken to the States. Approximately twenty students from New Zealand are accepted each year and the New Zealand branch of A.F.S. is anxious to receive applications from more Maori students.

to tour the South Eastern States, my sadness quickly disappeared and surely no group better earned the title of ‘The Happy Wanderers’. This tour not only gave us a chance to see the different states but more important, gave us a valuable period in which to compare notes and commend or criticise as much as we wanted, without having to smooth over our criticisms for American ears. Perhaps the most discussed subject was education and but for our comparison of views I might have come away with a very warped and wrong impression of American education. I found that the standard of education in each state differed as much as the geographic features, and in some states the students worked very hard even though I had found the work fairly easy in South Dakota. Many and varied opinions came forward on every aspect of our American year. Some praised, some criticised but one thing we all agreed on was that the deep impression made by the generosity and friendliness of the American people would remain with us for the rest of our lives. These are just a few of my experiences during this wonderful year as an American student. There is much to tell but this must be all for present. Kia Ora.

MAORI CULTURE TAUGHT Maori culture will from now on be taught to New Zealand future teachers. At the Auckland Teachers' Training College, a lecturer has been appointed with the special task of explaining to students the cultural pattern of the Maori people, to make them understand the fundamental needs of Maori children and give an elementary course of lectures on the language, customs and traditions. The first man chosen for this lectureship is Mr H. C. A. Lambert, a former company commander of the Maori Battalion and winner of the Military Cross. He was for seven years headmaster of the school for the blind in Auckland, and in 1956 became Maori Vocational Guidance Officer for the Auckland province.