this pounding at my temples—the panting of the victor keeping pace with the shallow laboured breathing of the vanquished. There's a sudden sound of people crashing through the jungle, and we swing around with our weapons halfway to our shoulders before we realise that they are only those off duty coming from their resting place and cursing their luck at having missed it all. They stop dead for a moment and stare at the thing. Then the spirit of the warrior drives them to demand a share in the sacrifice. At point-blank range they all empty their weapons into the quivering mound of flesh until Bob Slater's voice rings along the track, commanding and urgent, and breaks the spell. Turei Mohi, the oldest in the section with a wife and two lively children in New Zealand—devoted father and husband who a moment before has emptied a double-barrelled shot gun at range of six inches into what had been a soldier like ourselves—lurches to the side of the track and is ill. violently sick, symbolically spewing out the hate which has risen and then drained away so quickly. We look sheepishly at one another. No one explains and everyone understands. For months you have slogged your guts out for just this moment and when it finally comes, for a short space of time you are not human. Everything that is primitive and basic and frustrated wells to the surface to make you a killer. Then it is all over. The moment of blind rage and hatred passes and again we are just plain Jim Mason, Sonny Pehi, Pat Onslow and the rest, just ordinary sorts of guys again. Our moment has passed and we are mortals once more. But they are wrong when they say that life is as it ever was. Nothing can be the same again. The warriors have been blooded … Work on the Te Puea Memorial Hall, symbol of the desire of the Maori people of Mangere to preserve links with the past and to provide a centre for today's community activity, is now well under way. The £15,000 project, financed almost entirely by the Maori people themselves, is being built on ancestral land at Mangere on a Miro Street site chosen some years ago by the late Princess Te Puea. ? The Rev. Keith Elliott, V.C., is to take over the Maori pastorate of Aotea-Kurahaupo, near Wanganui, replacing the Rev. Canon H. Taepa, who is moving to the Rangiatea pastorate, Otaki. Mr Elliott was ordained in 1947. After a curacy at All Saints', Palmerston North, he became assistant missioner, Wellington City Mission (1950-52), vicar of Pongaroa (1952-56) and vicar of Pohangina (1956-59). It will be Canon Taepa's second term at Rangiatea, where he was pastor from 1952 to 1958, before going to Aotea-Kurahaupo. He served his curacy at Masterton and was pastor at Wellington-Wairarapa (1943-49) and Wellington (1949-52). Mr Sam Emery of Rotorua was given a formal farewell recently when he retired from the Rotorua County Council after 18 years' service. Speakers described him as one of the two outstanding Maori county councillors in New Zealand, the other being Mr Turi Carroll of Wairoa. ‘For eighteen years’, said the acting chairman, Councillor J. B. Thomas, ‘Mr Emery has enjoyed the confidence and respect of fellow councillors. The wise judgement of early councillors like Mr Emery has helped to lay a foundation of solid progress by the county.’ Other councillors also praised Mr Emery's contribution to the country's progress.