Wednesday: Knuckle bone or shin bone soup with vegetables added. Thursday: Sausages or mince with vegetables. Friday: Fish soup or fried fish.

WHAT FAMILIES OVERSPEND ON (1) Tinned Foods: Maori families are great buyers of tinned foods. As well as being costly, they are mainly of low nutrient value. How often do we find a family buying two tins of corned meat, costing 8/8, from which they make a stew. How much easier, cheaper and of greater food value it is to buy 1 ½lb of blade bone steak of exactly half the cost. Tinned Fish: They should be encouraged to buy fresh fish and fish heads to fry or make soup. Tinned Milk: The sale of sweet condensed milk and Ideal Milk in the town is high. The better and cheaper way of buying milk is full cream dried milk powder for the younger members of the family and dried skim milk powder for the older members. Biscuits and Cake: Generally speaking, the Maori is not fond of rich fruit cake, but is a heavy buyer of plain biscuits and cake. A pound of plain biscuits costs 3/-, whereas a 21b block of home-made chocolate cake (without eggs) would cost in the vicinity of 1/6 to 2/-. A bad habit among the Maori families is to buy from day to day, with the result that, being low in stores at the weekend, they frequent the milk-bars. It is only natural to expect that the cost of food items purchased in the weekend from the milk-bars is higher than the purchases from the grocer during the week. For this reason they should be encouraged to make out shopping lists, and as much as possible limit their buying to two or three days a week.

PRESENTATION OF AHUWHENUA TROPHIES by T. WAETFORD The presentation of the Ahuwhenua Trophies on April 12th of this year took place at Rangiahua, Kaikohe, North Auckland, on the farm of Mrs Mihi Stephens, who, together with her sister Mrs Harata Tipene, won the dairy section of the competition. As there was a continual steady drizzle throughout the ceremony, the presentation took place in the Te Aroha Maori meeting house. After the official party, which consisted of the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon. J. R. Hanan, Mrs Hanan, Mr Logan Sloane, M.P. for Hobson, Judge Porter, representing the Tai Tokerau Maori Land Court, and officers of the Department of Maori Affairs, were seated,bouquets were presented to Mrs Hanan. This was followed by prayers by Archdeacon P. Tipene. Mr Hone Heke Rankin, a Ngapuhi chief, together with Lt.-Col. J. C. Henare, gave speeches of welcome and the latter introduced the winners and all place-getters of the competition to the official party and to the large gathering. A reply, referring to this year's two winners, by Mr Sloane contained the remark that “it was not the first time that North Aucklanders had put it across the farmers with their more economic farms from the South.” It has been the second time that Mesdames Stephens and Tipene have won the dairy section, having claimed it before in 1954. As well as this remarkable achievement, they were placed third in the competition in 1946. They are the only ones in the country to attain this unique feat. Mr Watchman Waaka, of Otaua, Kaikohe, winner of the sheep and cattle section, on the other hand, has shown himself as a first-class worker. He has demonstrated perseverance and initiative on his very large farm of 1029 acres, which he works on his own. A returned serviceman, Mr Waaka has won honours before as a Maori All Black. This then, as great an honour in itself, is overshadowed by a greater honour—that in winning the Ahuwhenua Trophy. The Hon. Mr Hanan congratulated the winners and all place-getters. To have had the winner of one section of the Ahuwhenua Trophy Competition located in the Rangiahua district would surely have been distinction enough, but for the winners of both the dairy and sheep and cattle sections to hail from the Kaikohe area was a double distinction. Other place-getters who travelled from as far south as Rotorua to receive their medallions and certificates from Mr Hanan were as follows: Dairy Section: Mr W. R. Mangu, Tapu-Waeroa sub-tribe, Ngati-Porou tribe, Otorohanga, King Country, second equal with Mr J. W. Hedley, Ngati-Rawhea sub-tribe, Ngati-Paoa tribe, Te Hoe-o-Tainui, near Morrinsville, Waikato. Sheep and Cattle Section: Mr P. Raroa, Te Urunga-o-Te Ra sub-tribe, Ngati-Porou tribe, Pukawa, King Country, second, and Mr A. Whata, Ngati-Pikiao sub-tribe, Arawa tribe, Rotoiti, near Rotorua, third.