photo by Gisborne Herald photo by Rotorua Post At a week-long residential Maori arts and crafts school at Tikitiki, 70 Auckland Maoris and Pakehas studied tukutuku work, kowhai-whai and carving under the tutorship of the well known Tikitiki carver Pine Taiapa. In the photograph at left, Pine is watched at work by the Minister of Education, Mr A. E. Kinsella (centre) and by Mr S. R. Morrison, director of the extension department, Auckland University. The course, a highly successful one, was organised by the extension department of Auckland University, Nati Women's Welfare League, the people of the Tokararangi marae at Horoera, Ngata Memorial College and Pine Taiapa. Several experts on arts and crafts were present as observers. Those attending the school stayed at the Rongomaianiwaniwa marae. They were most enthusiastic about what they were learning, and also very much enjoyed the opportunity of getting to know the East Coast people who were their hosts. Among the Aucklanders were a group of Ngati Whatua from Orakei who are learning Maori crafts, especially tukutuku, so that they can decorate the interdominational chapel at Orakei. Judge Norman Smith (sec photo left). judge of the Waiariki Maori Land Court, Rotorua, retired last June after 46 years spent in Maori land affairs. Leading Maoris from all over the Waiariki district attended a special gathering at the new Maori Land Court to say farewell to the Judge and to pay a spontaneous tribute to his long and notable service to the people of the district. Of Scottish origin. Norman Smith came to New Zealand with his parents as a small boy, and grew up in Rotorua. He left school when he was fourteen, and later studied for all his examinations by correspondence and with tutors. In 1919 he joined the then Native Affairs Department in Rotorua as a cadet. He qualified as a solicitor, and in 1933 moved to Wellington, where he later became chief clerk. In 1950 he returned to Rotorua as Commissioner Smith, and two years later was promoted Judge and moved to Gisborne. In 1961 he returned again to Rotorua. Looking back over his life's work he says with conviction, ‘I have never wanted to do anything else.’