PEOPLE AND PLACES Recently thirty members of the Ohau Maori Youth Club, Rotorua (see photo above) spent three weeks touring Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria as the guests of Australian Rotary Clubs. The fifteen girls and fifteen boys gave warmly received concerts at Toowoomba. Newcastle, Woollongong, Yass. Wagga Wagga, Miidura and Broken Hill. They were accompanied by Canon Wi Huata. four other elders, and Mr John Smith, a Rotorua tourist guide and fisherman. The group travelled on a non-profit basis, as ambassadors of their country, and were billetted with Rotarians during their stay. As well as giving public performances to most enthusiastic audiences, they performed free of charge at a large number of hospitals, old folks' homes and similar institutions. Founded in 1962, the Ohau Maori Youth Club is an especially vigorous group which has won a number of prizes at Maori cultural competitions. Another group to travel overseas is the Aotearoa Concert Party (see photo at top of next page). At present accompanying the National Band of New Zealand on a tour of Canada and the United States, they are the first Maori concert party to be sponsored on such a tour. Members of the group are, from left. Olive Pearse, Faith Panapa. Agnes Manunui. Don Manunui and his wife Nancye. Meilene Chan, and Tawhai Richmond. Olive is from Waimarama, near Hastings; Faith and Nancye, both daughters of Bishop Panapa, are also from Hastings. Agnes and Don belong to Ngati Tuwharetoa. Meilene belongs to Ngati Raukawa at Otaki and Tawhai, a member of Te Arawa, is from Te Puke. After a preliminary tour of New Zealand with the band, they flew to Toronto where they will perform during a three-week engagement at the Canadian National Exhibition. After this there will be tour of America, and they expect to return home on about 10 November.