Mrs Maria Totara PEOPLE AND PLACES

Still Enjoys Gardening Mrs Maria Totara, 102 last March, was recently given a new light spade by her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs Duke Waipouri, with whom she lives, at Kaihu, 16 miles north of Dargaville. Mrs Totara loves gardening and would insist on using her old heavy spade. Mrs Totara is the pride of her family and of the district. Fit and well, she rises near dawn each day to work in her garden. She loves television and is usually last to bed as well as first to rise. She likes to travel and on 5 March insisted on going to see the new Catholic Maori Centre in Manukau Road which was opened by the Governor - General, Sir Bernard Fergusson.

An Exciting Invitation The Waioeka Youth Club from near Opotiki was invited to Australia last March by the Mayor of Toowoomba to entertain at the city's 17th annual Carnival of the Flowers. When the invitation was issued the young, brightly costumed East Coast group were entertaining 140 Australian tourists at the Tamatekapua meeting house. Ohinemutu, Normally, this would have been done by a Rotorua concert party, but the Waioeka Club Members of the Waioeka Youth Club performing at Ohinemutu Rotorua Post photo