a ko nga kai katoa he mea tao ki te hangi—nga hangi ano e tera kainga. E rua ra matou ki Hawaii, ka rere atu matou ki San Francisco. Kotahi noa te po ki reira, ka rere atu matou ki Vancouver, a i reira ki Winnipeg. Tekau nga ra matou ki Winnipeg, a i roto i enei ra, i whakahonoretia matou e taua taone nui, ara i meinga matou hei tangata ake mo taua taone e ki ana te reo Pakeha, he ‘honorary citizens’. He honore nui rawa atu tenei. Ko tetahi honore ano i riro mai i a matou, mo nga mahi e karangatia nei, he ‘float parade’. Kahore matou i mohio nawai pu i mahi to matou ‘float’—he taraka, whaka-paingia, me nga rakau e tu ana i runga, nga aha ake. He kaha pea no aku tamariki ki te haka, te waiata me te poi, ka riro mai i a matou te kapu mo taua mahi. Ko nga tangata tuatahi i haere mai ki te tutaki i a matou i to matou taenga atu ki Winnipeg, he Red Indians. He tokomaha ratou, e mau katoa ana o ratou ake kakahu, a, ko to ratou rangatira, he minita ano. Mai i to matou taenga atu ki Winnipeg, i whakahoahoa ai tenei iwi ki a matou. He iwi pai, manaaki i te tangata, a, he panipani noa te ahua o etahi. Ka mutu atu i Winnipeg, ka haere matou ki Brandon, he taone nui ano. I reira matou mo te wiki kotahi, a ko tetahi mea whaka-miharo i kite matou i reira e karangatia ana he ‘Indian Reservation’. Ko tenei he rahui motuhake mo nga Red Indians, e hia ke nei rau eka te nui, hei kainga noho, mahi mo ratou. Ahua rite tonu tenei iwi ki a tatou ki te iwi Maori, a ratou tikanga, me a ratou waiata, aha ake. I Brandon, ka haere matou ki Edmonton, he taone nui ano tenei. E rua wiki matou ki cooked in a hangi. We were in Hawaii for two days, then departed for San Francisco. From there we left for Vancouver, then travelled on to Winnipeg. During the ten days we were at Winnipeg we were made honorary citizens of that city. This is indeed a great honour. At a float parade we were again honoured, in that we were awarded the first prize for the best decorated float. We were not advised who was responsible for preparing our float, but it was in the form of an elaborately decorated truck with palm trees and other attractive flora. Perhaps it was through the splendid efforts of my young people in performing the haka, poi dances and so on, that we were awarded the first prize. The first people to meet us on our arrival at Winnipeg were Red Indians. There was quite a large party of them; all of them wore their native dress, and their leader was also an Anglican clergyman. From the first moment we arrived at Winnipeg, the Red Indians became our firm friends. They are an excellent people, and most hospitable, though it seemed to us that a number of them appeared to be lacking in drive. From Winnipeg we travelled to Brandon, which is a fairly large city. We were there for a week, and one of the fascinating things we saw was an Indian reservation. This is a reservation set aside purely for Red Indians, and comprised some hundreds of acres on which they live and work. These people are very similar to the Maori people in some of their customs, their songs and so on. From Brandon we travelled to Edmonton, another major city. We were there for two weeks, then went on to Regina. We discovered that a number of our World War II airmen, both Maori and Pakeha, were trained at Regina; some of the residents still remember a number of our boys. From Regina we travelled to Port Arthur, then to Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. At Ottawa a reception was held for us by the New Zealand High Commissioner in Canada, Sir Leon Gotz, together with Lady Gotz. We were in Ottawa for three days, then travelled to New York. This is indeed a frightening city. We visited Harlem, the area in which the Negro predominates; it is a terrifying place. From New York we travelled to Chicago, then to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Los Angeles. We were in Los Angeles during the period of racial strife, and a number of people