ANSWER TO HOMEWORK PROBLEM Homework centres are a distinctive feature of the Maori educational scene. They provide pupils with a place where it is possible to concentrate on study in the evenings.

Activity in Rotorua In Rotorua the Whakarewarewa Study Centre Committee runs two centres, one which began at Ohinemutu and resumed this year at Tinohopu, and another which started this year at Ngapuna. At Te Matai Maori School, near Te Puke, a new centre was opened this year, and at Kawerau the classes begun in the third term last year continue to go well. At Wairaka, near Whakatane, another recently opened centre is doing well, although travelling expenses for the qualified supervisors are high. The Kaingaroa Primary School Parent-Teacher Association is interested in starting a homework centre for secondary pupils in that area also.

Hamilton Plans For Centres At Hamilton a meeting was called last February to form a committee for the promotion of Maori education in Hamilton. Organised by the Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, Professor J. Ritchie, the meeting was attended by about 60 people, most of them Maori. A committee of seven was elected to sponsor study facilities for Maori secondary school pupils and tutorial assistance at all levels for Maoris living in Hamilton. No definite plans were made, but the committee will probably make a central meeting place available to secondary school students three or four nights a week, and organise supervision, perhaps by a team of parents working on a roster system. Tutorial assistance, mainly for Maori adults attending night classes is also to be initiated as part of the scheme. Much of the evening's discussion was based on the Maori child's inability to progress at school as quickly as the pakeha because he is not given the same encouragement to study at home. Some speakers argued that efforts to improve this situation should be concentrated on school children. Professor Ritchie, however, pointed out that there was no better way to provide these incentives than by stimulating an interest in education in Maori adults. Committee members elected at the meeting were Mrs R. Wright, Miss R. de Loree, Dr D. Sinclair, Messrs. S. Renata, M. Raureti, G. D. Wright and Munroe.

BOOKS TUWHARETOA by John Te H. Grace A. H. & A. W. Reed, 60s. reviewed by Margaret Orbell All those interested in Maori history will be glad to know that Tuwharetoa is now available in a second edition. Mr J. Te H. Grace's fine history of Ngati Tuwharetoa of the Taupo district was first published in 1959; the book received a warm welcome from readers, and for some years it has been out of print. This new edition is identical in content and format with the first edition. Tuwharetoa is a work of very wide scope, for it traces the events of some 600 years, from the coming of the Arawa canoe (regarded as having arrived during the fourteenth century) up to the present day. Since Ngati Tuwharetoa was always a prominent tribe which entered into many alliances with its neighbours, events in these surrounding tribes also enter into the story. The first of the book's three parts deals with the period up to the end of the seventeenth century. With some of the earliest stories, such as the voyage of the Arawa canoe and the romance of Hinemoa and Tutanekai, the author necessarily covers some rather well-trodden ground, but they are stories which can well stand re-telling. Mr Grace gives a most interesting account of the powerful tribes which inhabited Taupo and the Bay of Plenty at the time of the ‘fleet’ migration of the fourteenth century: