• In a new move to help young Maori people in trouble with the law, the Maori Trustee will finance the building of ‘family homes’ for Maori boys and girls discharged from borstals and detention centres or placed on probation when first coming before the Court. Large family homes will be built in areas where suitable employment can be found, and five or six boys or girls will live with foster parents in each home. The Department of Maori Affairs will help in providing suitable work and in other arrangements. The Maori Trustee is also looking into the question of loans to non-Maori families to buy existing homes on condition that two or three young Maori probationers are taken in as boarders. Maori families are already able to finance existing homes through the Maori Trustee. • The Maori Education Foundation has awarded a research fellowship to Mr R. A. Benton, of Russell, to study problems and methods associated with the teaching of English to Maori children. Mr Benton has taught Maori children at the Bay of Island College and in Maori district high schools at Te Kao and Motatau, and as well as having made investigations into the teaching of English to Maoris, he has made detailed studies of traditional aspects of Maori culture. Mr Benton's study of the teaching of English to Maori children will be concentrated on three main areas of difficulty. These are where Maori is used as the vernacular, where a mixture of debased English plus Maori is used, and where an elemental form of English has become the vernacular. Ans Westra Photo Some of the people who gathered at Tikitiki last May for the annual reunion of Maori World War I ex-servicemen. Their reunion coincided with the visit to Tikitiki of the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, and Lady Fergusson, who recently toured the Bay of Plenty and the East Coast, visiting a great number of communities. Sir Bernard was given a ceremonial welcome by Mr Hamana Mahuika and Mr H. T. Reedy on behalf of Ngatiporou, and a service, conducted by the Rev. T. Kaa, was held in the Tikitiki Church. More than 400 people were present for the occasion.