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grammar of Maori'. His M.A. thesis, which has been recently published, was on his home district in Northland. Mr Hohepa has also done research on the use of English among American Indian children and the structure of the Tongan language. Pat Hohepa is the son of Mr Tom Hohepa and the late Mrs Paerau Hohepa (nee Wilcox), of Waima, both members of the Mahurehure sub-tribe of Ngapuhi. Aged 28, he is married with three children. Mr Raymond (Remana) Henwood, M.Sc. (see photo below right, previous page) who is also from Northland, recently went to the Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Australia, to take a post-graduate fellowship diploma in textiles. Mr Henwood is a son of Mr and Mrs C. V. Henwood of Tautoro, six miles from Kaikohe. His father is Pakeha; his mother, a member of Ngati Moerewa subtribe of Ngapuhi, was before her marriage Miss Te Paea Te Whata. Like Pat Hohepa, Ray attended Northland College in Kaikohe. At Victoria University he gained in M.Sc. with honours in biochemistry. For 18 months he taught science at Wellington College. Aged 24, he is married with one son. Ranginui, the new war-memorial meeting-house at Hairini, Tauranga (see photo below) was opened on 6 March by the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, in the presence of 3,000 visitors. In his speech Sir Bernard said that just as the name Tauranga meant an anchorage or haven, so the meeting-house and marae would shelter the traditional arts and knowledge. It would also be a place from which young people would go out to seek new adventures and to become leaders, not only of the Maori or of the European, but of New Zealanders as a whole. The meeting-house was dedicated by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. W. N. Panapa.

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