not say anything at all as they walked away down the street. That night they did not get ready for bed. They sat down at the window, waiting. When the light began to grow in the middle of the lake until it seemed as though all the stars in the world were shining down upon Lake Taupo, they left their room and went outside. The light did not come over the water to the land as it had done the night before. Instead it seemed to be all gathered up into one big star in the sky that sent down one shining ray of light. The Three Wise Men looked up at the star and Balshazzar said, “We do have to follow a star. We do have to follow a star.” Now the light from the star moved away from them and they followed in its path until they came to the small neat house on the side of the hill where Joseph and Mary lived. Mr and Mrs Thomas were there and many other people. It was Mrs Thomas who told the Three Wise Men that Mary had had a baby boy. She did not know them and they did not know her. She was only an ordinary woman and they were three kings from distant lands; but they talked together in the light of the star as though they all belonged to the one family. The next morning the Three Wise Men came again to the house where Mary and Joseph lived with the gifts that they had travelled so far to bring. Kaspar knocked at the door and Joseph let them in. One by one they made their gifts and praised the baby again. When they were leaving, Balshazzar said, “What is to be the baby's name?” Mary looked at her husband, Joseph, and at her baby, and she smiled and said to them, “Rangi.”

NEWS IN BRIEF Mr N. P. K. Puriri, Assistant Controller of Maori Welfare, has been invited as one of ten New Zealand delegates to the Duke of Edinburgh's second study conference, to be held in Canada in mid-1962. The conference is to study the human consequences of the changing industrial environment in the Commonwealth and Empire and will be organized on much the same lines as the 1956 conference at Oxford. Mr Puriri is a direct descendant of the chief Kawiti, who commanded Ruapekapeka Pa in the Bay of Islands, and a grandson of Canon W. H. Keretene of Whangarei. He was born in Whangarei in 1924 and educated at Ngararatunua Primary School at Mt Albert Grammar School. He has spent his entire working life in the Department of Maori Affairs, first in Court and land titles work, later in the Maori Welfare Division. He has taken active part in Maori community activities both at Auckland and Whangarei. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ A large youth club movement has sprung up in the South Hokianga under the inspiration of Mr George Sutherland of Kohukohu. Six youth clubs have been founded—namely at Motukaraka, Waimamaku, Whirinaki, Kohukohu, Rawene and Omanaia. The clubs get together from time to time to give full length concerts at which cups are awarded as prizes. At a gathering at Opononi last August there was a public of 600, the Kohukohu group (leader, Manu Sutherland) and Waimamaku group (leader, May Rollo) being awarded first and second prizes respectively. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Bill Tawhai, of Auckland university, made a notable success of the main role in Shakespeare's Othello, produced by Paul Day for the Auckland University Drama Society last August. The part is, of course, an extremely difficult one, but critics had much praise for his performance. Bill Tawhai, who comes from Omaio (Whanau a Apanui) is studying part-time for an Arts degree while teaching in Auckland city. Last year he won a Rotary overseas travel award and along with seven other New Zealanders made a few months' tour of India and Ceylon. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ The annual convention of the Anglican Maori Mission in the Waikato was held at Ngaruawahia last August. Its theme, ‘Healing and the Church’, was of particularly deep interest to those who attended. Superintendent of the Waikato Mission is the Reverend Canon Wi Te Tau Huata.