A tramping hut is to be erected near Maungapohatu in memory of the late Very Rev. J. G. Laughton, C.M.G., the pioneer missionary who lived at Maungapohatu from 1918 to 1926, and who remained closely associated with the Tuhoe people, a trusted friend and counsellor, until his death last year. Using ancient Polynesian methods of navigation, Dr David Lewis last December successfully sailed his catamaran Rehu Moana from Rarotonga to New Zealand. Another member of the crew kept a check on the yacht's position by modern methods, but did not tell Dr Lewis how they were going. Dr Lewis relied on nature's signposts, and found himself only 40 miles too far to the east after the four-week passage of 1,630 miles, with light winds, from Rarotonga. Dr T. Barrow, formerly the ethnologist at the Dominion Museum, Wellington, recently took up the position of Anthropologist at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Hawaii. The four hundred Maori committees in New Zealand are being asked by the New Zealand Maori Council to provide at least one medical kit each for a Vietnam village. There is a great shortage of medical supplies in Vietnam. A medical kit that can be used by the villagers costs about £12. The secretary of the Maori Council, Mr John Booth, said that a campaign would be launched to further the scheme, and the international Red Cross and CORSO would be asked to distribute the kits. The Rev. A. T. K. Mahuika, who has just completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at Auckland University, left for Australia in February to spend a year at Moore Theological College in Sydney. Mr Mahuika, who comes from Ruatoria, this year completed his term of service as chaplain at St Stephen's School, Bombay, Auckland. The scholarship he has been awarded was established by members of an Australian Anglican parish to mark the 150th anniversary of Marsden's first visit to New Zealand.

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