parts of New Zealand, with particularly strong contingents from Auckland and Wellington. The dominant theme of the sentiments expressed was that Miss Ngawai was a genius, unique, and that her like would never be seen again. Other brilliant composers and teachers there would be, but they would be of another generation and of another time. Tuini's great contribution as a composer of war-time songs, classics of language and style, and of folk-music peculiar to the rural East Coast of her generation would live forever. Mr Hanan promised that he would recommend to the Maori Purposes Fund Board a proposal to grant £500 if necessary to assist in publishing a volume of Tuini's collected works, which Mrs Ngoi Pewhairangi, the present leader of Hokowhitu Atu, has been compiling. Mrs Pewhairangi was secretary of the committee which organised the hui, and extremely well organised it was too, in the best tradition of the great East Coast festivals. It was a time of nostalgia and humour as the marae meeting house and concert hall again rang out with Hokowhitu Atu in full cry, giving forth Tuinui's famous Maori songs of World War II and her sometimes robust, sometimes mellow, sometimes tragic and sometimes humorous folk songs. Mr Hanan takes the first child into the new children's playground Asleep in the meeting house