Embarrassed, she broke away, wishing her mother would stop crying and “going on”. Suddenly she found herself wanting to get away from her mother. She wished the train would hurry and come. Once she was aboard and speeding away she would be free! Perhaps in those coming two weeks she will know life. Perhaps after the two weeks had been folded away with time, her lonely, worried mother would see her daughter no longer a baby but a grown woman, one to whom she could unfold and share her troubles, seek her help, talk to her as to another woman, and know a different happy feeling of togetherness. • Plans are being made to raise finance for a £25,000 Maori community centre in Rotorua. A committee, elected at a Ohinemutu meeting, is negotiating for the purchase of a section in Te Ngae Road. It is provisionally known as the Te Aohou Maori Community Centre, and will be open to Europeans as well as Maoris. The project has the backing of all the tribes in the district.

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