grader, heavy trucks, the D6 and D7. All the Maori men working in the Woodhill Forest have some Te Taou connection or have married women of this hapu of Ngatiwhatua. Still more people will be needed in future and for our young folk this great project, which is so intimately connected with their past, will be a wonderful place of employment in the future. Apart from regular workers, whole families often take a hand in extra work in the weekends, packing marram and lupin seed, making a happy Te Taou occasion of the job. This then is how many of our people live today. With homes on our ancestral reserves we work in a Pakeha economy on the land that was once the sandy domain of our people. Some may mourn the past and the fact that we cannot now offer visitors to the marae at Reweti our traditional shellfish, but all admit that the reclamation of the dunes has brought us nothing but good. In the forest and on the sand we work in harmony with men of other races who still respect our customs and wishes. The old wahi tapu are all fenced off today and left unplanted, and the seaward face of Oneonenui has been set aside as a tapu area because of the hundred Waikato who were once slain there. The future of Te Taou is ably guarded by the men of the State Forest Service. They, with Te Taou among them, work forever with the sound of the ocean in their ears, fighting a constant battle on the ancient sandhills with the sand continuously cast up by restless Tai Tama Tane.

Sir Turi Carroll, Sixth Maori Knight continued from page 3 boards, was for eight years president of the A. and P. Association and was Chairman of the Farmers' Union provincial executive. After the Second World War, Sir Alfred offered 1700 acres of the family property for the rehabilitation of Maori soldiers. He was a member of the district rehabilitation committee. Awarded the O.B.E. in 1950, he was invested by the Queen during her visit in 1954. He has been Chairman of the Ngati Kahungunu Tribal Executive for very many years, and was closely associated with the late Major Te Reiwhati Vercoe in the formation of the New Zealand Council of Tribal Executives. At the recent inaugural meeting of this body he was elected as its President, and he is also the Council's nominee to the Board of Trustees of the Maori Education Foundation. Sir Turi Carroll is the sixth Maori to receive a knighthood; the others are Sir James Carroll, Sir Maui Pomare, Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Peter Buck, and Sir Eruera Tirikatene.

Father Henare Tate Second Maori Catholic Priest The Rev. Henare Arekatera Tate, who comes from Motuti, near Panguru, was ordained on 30 June as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first Maori ever to be ordained for the diocesan priesthood, and the second Maori ever to become a priest. Hundreds of Maoris from all over the country came to Auckland to be present at Father Tate's ordination and at his first Mass, and then to take part in a Maori reception for him in the Trades Hall in Hobson Street. This gathering was organized by an Auckland committee headed by Mrs Whina Cooper and Mr W. Hotere, and an estimated 2000 Maoris took part altogether in the various functions. Father W. Te Awhitu, the first Maori to become a priest, took part in the celebrations, and Father Tate's parents and other members of his family were also among the guests of honour. Father Tate will be returning to Panguru, in Northland.