photography by Ans Westra Girls’ Grammar School. While there she received her B.A. degree as a part-time student. As well as her academic studies, Miss Hopa has always had a keen interest in sport and music. She intends to stay at Oxford for another year. A moving and impressive ceremony, the opening and dedication of the 28th Maori Battalion National War Memorial Community Centre at Palmerston North took place on Saturday, 27 June (see photo above). Visitors to the meeting began arriving at the Palmerston North showgrounds from midmorning on the Friday, being welcomed and ably catered for by the tangata whenua, Ngati Raukawa. In the evening there was a ball at which the successful candidate in the fund-raising Queen Carnival, Miss Thelma Hape (see photo at right) was crowned ‘Miss Aotearoa’ by Mr Mason Durie, O.B.E., chairman of the Raukawa Maori Executive Committee. Next morning, after the great crowd of visitors was assembled in front of the Memorial Hall, some 800 members of the Battalion made a proud and splendid showing as they took part in a march past. Official guests included the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon. J. R. Hanan, deputising for the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, the Mayor of Palmerston North, Mr G. M. Rennie, the Secretary for Maori Affairs, Mr J. M. McEwen, the president of the N.Z. Maori Council, Sir Turi Carroll, the four Maori members of Parliament, and chiefs of the three Armed Services. After their welcome, and the arrival of Their Excellencies the Governor-General Sir Bernard Fergusson and Lady Fergusson, a Guard of Honour composed of members of the Battalion Association (see photo above) was inspected by His Excellency. Then followed the traditional challenge to His Excellency, speeches of welcome, and speeches by distinguished visitors. In his speech Sir Bernard, after speaking of the solemn memories which the occasion aroused, urged his listeners to ‘call to the height and depth of your Maori past, to summon the whole strength, all the power and sinews of the Maori people, mental as well