public, St Joseph's Maori Girls' College is best known for its magnificent choral work, and the excellent recordings it has made. It was thanks to fund-raising concert parties and contributions from past pupils, together with a Golden Kiwi grant, that the school was able to open a fine new swimming pool recently. The school chapel, a beautiful building, was completed a few years ago, and at present other building plans are being carried out, including a new kitchen and laundry. After they leave, many girls get good office jobs, or else go nursing, dental nursing or teaching: this year, for example, two or three will be enrolling at Ardmore Teachers' College, and the head girl, Cecilia Whatapuhou from Foxton, is going to study at Victoria University (another past pupil, Georgina Kingi from Taneatua, is at present in her second year at Auckland University). Teachers do much to help the girls find suitable positions. The latest Education Department report, commenting on the valuable work that the Maori church boarding schools are doing, says that on the whole, these schools are still more ‘effective and satisfying’ for Maori pupils than are day schools, and that pupils at boarding school are less likely to leave too soon. The report points out that now that there are nearly 11,000 Maori secondary-school pupils, six out of seven of whom attend day schools, it is important that state day schools should become as adequate in caring for Maori pupils as are the boarding schools. No doubt the regular, happy routine which is possible in a boarding school has much to do with the schools' success. But the most important thing about St Joseph's, as with similar schools, is that they care so much about their pupils, understand them so well, and do so much to help them. It is hoped to publish articles on some other Maori boarding schools in future issues. Sister Mary Katarina, from Tokaanu, shows some of the intricacies of the poi to a group of girls. A past pupil of the college, Sister Mary Katarina is now a teacher there.