Taumarunui Conference Maori Leadership Conferences, under the sponsorship of the Council of Adult Education and the people in the district concerned, have been held in many parts of the country in the last few years, and have proved very useful and popular. One of the most recent of these conferences, and a most successful one, was the Taumarunui-Tuwharetoa Regional Maori Leadership Conference held at Taumarunui last May. The people of Taumarunui and the surrounding district were the delegates' hosts, and the warmth of their hospitality certainly did much to ensure the success of the occasion. The really excellent meals were served in a dining hall at the Ngapuwaiwaha marae which had been completed and opened only a week before the Conference: the people of Taumarunui had made an all-out effort to have it ready for their guests. Mr P. T. H. Jones of Taumarunui was President of the Conference, and the Chairman was Mr S. R. Morrison, ‘Auld Lang Syne’ at the end of the conference. Conference delegates line up for a formal photograph before they leave.