These boys watching T.V. at the Gear Meat Hostel are (left to right) Greg Howearth, Johnnie Henderson, Jack Cooper, Jack Po, Ben Ngata, and Bobby Wilson Hostel boys run their own band, the ‘Imperial Twisters’, and till recently some of them were also members of the well-known Dakotas. The three Dakotas practising here are Ben Ngatai, second sax (from Palmerston North, and staying at the hostel), with Kingi Kawai and Bill Butler (second and first guitars, both from Ruatoria) who work elsewhere, and come here to practise.