the learner will be told that all other portions are much easier to do. Stroke after stroke of the adze is struck, shaving this more or less straight up and down cut, until one is satisfied, or the expert, that the result is good, then the opposite side is to balance and coincide. It often needs a further touch up before the work is done. When the eyebrows and eyes are finished, the adze and chisel shape off the nose. Similarly with the top of the head, a slight rounding off at the top end of the timber, finished off by marking out the centre position of the topknot with bevelled chisel and adze. Then follows the deepest adzing on the whole figure, that of bringing into relief the mouth, the tongue, the lower jaw and the shoulders. This adzing is somewhat easier than the previous adzing, for the angle of cutting is not so pronounced. In this adzing the lower jaw is recessed, the tongue cut wedged-shaped on to the chest and the shoulders deeply swept back to the base of the lower jaw. Actually a few strokes bring all parts at once into high relief, and by use of the paring and bevelled chisels, except for deepening the mouth cavity, the whole operation is simple. The ease in obtaining this result, of course, is due to the previous training, and the eyes soon detect and correct any off balance. (b) The shoulders, arms, hands and body. Now that the head is completed, the learner will immediately see that, because of the previous adzing, the shoulders, arms and body are almost shaped, only a few cuts at the armpits, at the base of the forearm and downward adzing at the navel to form the body. The final placing of hands and fingers is done with a chisel. (c) The legs, knees and feet. Here again no special technique is required, except careful adzing, and if there is to be a figure below the feet then you just do preliminary adzing here and your main concentration will be on top of the head, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and tongue. Comparison in Output I have stated at the beginning that it is the normal output of an expert to complete a carved panel 10 feet long 2 feet wide 8 inches thick in 8 days. My own output is one in 5 days or 40 hours. The learner must know this from the very first lesson. As he progresses with his adze on carving, he will be constantly reminded that only those portions of the carvings not covered by surface decorations are to be cleanly adzed, for far too much time is wasted by unecessary adzing. This of course is not discouraged, rather one is weaned off gradually. The learner will take seven to eight weeks to finish a panel. He will require a year to reduce this down to four weeks, and at the end of two years take two weeks to complete one, and that is an excellent rate of progress. Very few pupils from the Maori School of Arts have attained this standard and those that have are now the leading carvers of the Maori people. By and large, adzing Eramiha kia tikina atu raua. Kua mohio a Apirana kua whakae a ia ki te ako i a matau, a kua rite te kainga, te taha oranga mo raua tae atu ki te waka tiki i a raua. Ka tae atu au ki tona kainga ka utaina ana taonga, a ka ki mai a ia kei te pa i Kokowhinau, kei roto i a Ruataupare whare whakairo te po poroporoaki i a raua a te iwi, a mo te ata matau ka haere ki Rotorua. Kua mohio katoa nga hapu maha o te Teko e haere ana raua ki te Kura Whakairo i Rotorua ki te ako i nga tamariki tane o te motu ki te mau toki kapukapu hei arahi i te whakatu o te whakairo kia atanga, kia rere te wehi. Te unga atu ki Kokowhinau ki tonu te marae i te iwi e pohiri ana mai i a matau, a ka tuku matau ka whai-korerotia mai au i te tuatahi, a muri iho ki aku kaumatua, kei te tu tonu kei te tangi. Ka mutu nga whakahoki a matau ka hongi, ka haere ki te kai, ka mutu, kai uru ki roto o Ruataupare whare. Tuaki rawa ake te po, ki tonu to matau whare i nga iwi o Matatua. Ka mutu te karakia Ringatu, ka tu te iwi ki te poroporoaki i nga kaumatua nei. Etahi korero ataahua i puta mo raua, a ko taku marama taka mo Pepuere 1930 ki tonu i a ratau kupu mo raua, te pono, te ngakau whakaiti, te hapai i nga mahi a te iwi, te pupuri i te whakapono, to raua matau ki nga waiata, ki nga oriori, ki nga patere, te matau o Eraminha ki te hanga whare, ki tarai waka, ki te whakairo, ki te mahi kai, ki te miraka kau, a to Te Wairata ki nga mahi a te wahine, ki te raranga takapau, kete me era atu mahi. Kaore o ratau awangawanga mo ta raua haere, mo te mea