being not so good at their school work as the others, children from better houses, better dressed, with parents who take them out, books to read, toys to play with. These things are important, but they aren't the only things. Wtihout proper food and clothes a child will die, but without the interest of his parents shown often, and as though they mean it, a child dies inside, like Harry and Emma. How can you help your children? Well, first of all, you'll have to ask yourself some pretty hard questions. What do you want for your children? This is 1962, you have to think about 1982, not 1932. Perhaps you had better go and see the teacher and the headmaster and have a talk to them, they're usually nice people and interested in your children, they wouldn't be doing the hardest and worst paid job in the country if they weren't. Perhaps you had better look at yourself and say—Am I doing all I could? Am I interested in what young Sonny or Annie is doing? Do I know what he does after school? Have I taken him to the pictures or the Museum or the Zoo or for a trip across the harbour? I'll tell you the truth, there are plenty of pakehas that don't do these things. But does that matter? You don't weed your kumara because the pakeha does, you weed them so that they'll grow up and there'll be a good crop. Watch your boy or girl and see how he or she is growing; you'd do that for a kumara, why not for your own flesh and blood? Try to understand why they are like they are, go to the P.T.A.; these things are often talked about. And when you're in doubt about what the Pakeha is up to, keep quiet until you're sure. Perhaps he is trying to help, and he can't do much unless you help too.

Left to right: Mathew Blackburn, from Raetihi, Rana Waitai, from Wanganui, Ray Kaanga, from Raetihi, and Ratu Tibble, from Tokomaru Bay. Left to right: Ann Gordon, from Johnsonville; Geraldine Neale, from Stokes Valley, Diana Lambert, from Wairoa, Jim Puohotaua, from Wanganui, Paul Reiher, from the Gilbert Islands, Madawan Krishnan from Fiji. Seated in front are Wendy and Lena Harker, from Wairoa.

These were some of the people at the first meeting for the year of the Maori Club at Victoria University in Wellington. Photographs are by Ans Westra