A VIEW FROM THE YOUNGER GENERATION by Dr RINA MOORE My very first impressions of this Conference were that here we had a group of young people who had a sureness of themselves, a maturity of personality, and an intelligent outlook. They were people who knew where they were going. There seemed to be no feeling of racial difference. They did not seem to be struggling with the adolescent insecurity and the uncertainty of a man between two worlds as had the Young Maori Leaders a generation before them in 1939. Any difficulties they might have had were faced; looked at; laughed at; and then passed over with a feeling that it was all part of life. My very next impression was the realisation that these Young Maori Leaders had turned their backs very definitely on the difficulties, and misunderstandings of the past. The only past they wished to retain was the past of their own cultural Maori background. The past in the sense of troubles between the two races was never once mentioned, and I felt that they were right. The young Maori leader realises that to brood over past grievances only clouds the future, and he is hoping for the wider horizons of a brighter future both for himself and his children after him. It was interesting to note the conflicts between the Maori way of life and his attempts to adjust himself into European life. Maori aroha, which I had always regarded as one of the finest attributes in the Maori culture brought in its wake a trail of difficulties. There was the young man who tried to farm the family holding, which would have produced an adequate living for himself and his family, but unfortunately his Maori aroha was expected to extend to his brothers and sisters who remained in the homestead. Again, there was the conflict of Maori aroha and business when incorporations attempted to provide finance for housing some of their people. The Maori people have the feeling that as the tribe was providing the money and as they still identify themselves with that tribe, and as part of that tribe then there was no need to repay the monies owing the tribe and therefore to themselves. The Maori aroha is a trait that I feel our people should retain, in that we belong to a family group or hapu, and then to the whanau and lastly to the tribe. It gives every individual the feeling of love and security. I think, however, that Maori aroha could be divorced from business