Left to right: Colin Broughton, Jeff Taha, Dennis Matoe, Lorris Whenuaroa and Don Lawton. all these difficulties in the most admirable way. It provides companionship, accommodation, and educational guidance. It provides the sort of social control which will usually help to keep the financial difficulties within bounds. Most important of all, the supervisor, or teacher, in the scheme is the sort of man who would be a natural leader to the boys and who will give them a sense of security in the city. During the day, the programme provides for a good training in all the subjects in the theoretical trade examinations. Yet the boys do not spend whole days in the classroom. Part of their time is given over practical building. This practical work is carefully chosen by the teachers so it covers all the jobs a trained carpenter must be able to do. Every kind of weather-board and roofing is taught systematically on the different building jobs the schools take on. There are evening classes too—the Wellington school has two a week, one in mathematics and the other in social studies and English, for it is essential that future tradesmen should have a good general education and understand the world around them. In 1962 three schools will be running (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch), with a total of 108 pupils, and in 1963 this number will be increased 144. It is essential for the boys to be carefully selected. They must have the intelligence and the energy to face the hard work demanded by these courses. Those who graduate will not only be tradesmen—they will be among the best tradesmen in the country. The scheme does more than just raising the number of trained Maori carpenters, for it also raises the whole standard of trade training in the country.