The quartet hard at work in a recording session. group's success is that they made ‘the Morrisons’ a household word in this country in an age of rock‘n’roll—without singing rock. While other young entertainers were enjoying a temporary teenage following by singing frantic numbers, the Morrisons built up an enduring support, not confined to any one age group, singing songs with wide appeal. Their first big break came with an offer to tour New Zealand with Stan Freberg. Their second was a meeting with promoter Harry M. Miller over coffee in Auckland's plush Colony Club. Their chat led to a contract with La Gloria Records. In Miller's first ‘Showtime Spectacular’ concert in Western Springs Stadium, the quartet sang to 20,000—the biggest show business crowd ever in New Zealand. ‘It was frightening,’ recalls Howard. ‘A huge sea of faces.’ Recording successes (among them phenomenal sales of the parody ‘My Old Man's An All Black’) and the first live telecast of a group in New Zealand followed. They set out in 1960 on a ‘Show-time Spectacular’ tour of New Zealand that was cheduled to run five weeks and instead went a full 21 weeks, with packed houses all the way. No New Zealand group in history had displayed such song box office appeal. In Australia, as a top-billing act with the Tivoli show ‘Nat's In The Belfry’, the Morrisons continued to win friends. But perhaps the quartet's greatest triumph has been the fact that they have not allowed themselves to be carried away by success. During their long stay in Australia they wedged in every spare hour—and they had an extremely busy schedule—for rehearsal and study. All four studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Howard took lessons in voice production. Because of this solid background of study and practice, the Howard Morrison Quartet is no ‘overnight sensation’ which is likely to fade suddenly from the entertainment scene. It is a polished professional act which will do credit to New Zealand, and to the Maori race, wherever it performs. We regret the mis-spelling of a contributor's name in three of our past issues. The articles concerned were ‘Still Popular After Thirty Years’, the story of the Rotorua Maori Concert Party in our issue no. 36, ‘The Battle That Received a Name’, a short story in no. 33, and ‘An Appreciation of Maori’ in no. 26. All these contributions were written by Alan Armstrong, of Auckland, who is the co-author of the recently published book ‘Maori Action Songs’. Captain Armstrong has just returned from two years in Malaya, and is Adjutant of the Second Battalion of the New Zealand Regiment now stationed at Burnham. While in Malaya he was also director of the Battalion's very succesful Maori Concert Party. This group was very popular in Malaya and Singapore, where it performed frequently on the stage, screen and radio. Mr E. G. Schwimmer has now left the editorship of Te Ao Hou. He has edited this issue jointly with the new editor, who is Miss Margaret Orbell. Miss Orbell, who comes from Auckland, has an M.A. degree from Auckland University. She has recently been teaching at Ngata Memorial College, Ruatoria. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Three Maori university rugby players are travelling with the New Zealand University Rugby team to California shortly. They are Mr Mervyn Taiaroa, M.A., from Otago; Mr Quentin Tapsell, who is studying for his M.Sc., and is from Rotorua; and Mr Albert Orme, who was selected for the New Zealand Maori Team to play France.