A reception for Maureen in Palmerston North coincided with a meeting of the Ikaroa District Tribal Council. Here she is talking to (from left) Mr Mason Durie of Palmerston North and Messrs Steve Watene and H. Hipango of Wellington, members of the Council. A Letter from Maureen Miss Maureen Kingi, Miss New Zealand for 1962, was on her way to California when this issue of Te Ao Hou went to press. After competing there in the Miss International Contest, she is off to London for the Miss World Contest, and then to Brazil for six weeks. After all this, and after bringing Miss Brazil back with her on a goodwill tour of New Zealand, Maureen will undertake a New Zealand-wide tour as a model. After that—she isn't sure yet. There will be screen tests in California of course, and she doesn't yet know whether she will go back to finish her training in Auckland as a radiographer. Just now her life is too much of a whirl, and too much will be happening in this next year, for her to be able to think as far ahead as this. One thing is certain; on her overseas tours Maureen will be a fine ambassadress for New Zealand. Representing both races in New Zealand, and versed in Maori and Pakeha culture, Maureen has considerable talent as well as beauty (and she certainly is beautiful—even more so than her photographs suggest.) She is expert at action songs and with the double and triple poi, and has an attractive singing voice. When she speaks in public she does so gracefully and well, and with really astonishing self-possession for a girl of nineteen. It is no wonder that Maureen has a good knowledge of traditional Maori culture, for she comes from the well-known Kingi family in Rotorua, her father being an interpreter for the Rotorua Maori Affairs Department. Her grandmother was the daughter of Te Whataiwi, who was first cousin to Tureiti Te Heuheu, who gave the National Park area of Ngaruahoe, Ruapehu and Tongariro to the people of New Zealand. She is the niece of Hepi Te Heuheu,