David Merito of Whakatane, a second year student at the School of Physical Education, University of Otago, has been elected president of the Physical Education Students' Society for the coming year. Another Maori, Logan Berghan of Ahipara, was elected as the representative of the third year students on the group's executive. Two other Maoris are at present attending the School of Physical Education. They are Lewis Maxwell of Auckland, formerly head prefect at St Stephens College, and Douglas Pye of Otorohanga. There are four others who have already completed the course and gained their diplomas in physical education. They are Leslie Williams, a teacher at Avondale College; Rarawa Kohere, a teacher at Mana College; May Paki, a teacher at Queen Victoria School, and Warren Riwai, who is at present studying at Christchurch Teachers' College. Eighteen-year-old Haare Mete of Kaitaia was a member of a women's gymnastics team which recently visited Vienna to take part in an international gymnastic festival. One of the team's items made use of poi. with Haare leading the group. As a result of a new law passed in 1963, the annual number of legal adoptions of Maori children has dropped to a little over a quarter of the previous figure. The law, which was passed to wipe out a legal distinction between Maori and Pakeha, rules that Maori child adoptions must be handled in the Magistrates Court instead of the Maori Land Court. Though some improvement in the number of adoption cases being handled is now being noticed, the figures are still disturbingly low.

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