The action song and haka groups gave really magnificent performances as they added the kinaki, the complement, to the ceremonial speeches. It was an evening that will do much to increase the fame and mana of Maori dances and music, both here and overseas. Prince Philip was so impressed by the standard of the Maori singing at Waitangi, and later at Napier, when the royal visitors were greeted by the poi and action songs of the girls of St Joseph's Maori Girls' College, that he suggested that thought might be given to sending a Maori group to compete in the great festival of song, the ‘Eisteddfod’, in Wales. The Queen and the Duke wave farewell as the royal barge takes them back to the ‘Britannia’ at the end of this most memorable day.