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Te Ao Hou THE MAORI MAGAZINE PAGE STORIES The Homecoming, J. H. Maffatt 7 The Old Marae, Leo Fowler 10 Tuhuru, Warrior Chief and Conqueror of Westland 15 Three Old Stories 18 POETRY Tangi, Tima Pou 7 Paua Tide, John Hovell 13 Poem, L. S. W. Duncan 51 ARTICLES King Koroki's Tangi 5, 28 Huhuna, L. A. Lew 8 Mrs Otene Retires 9 N.Z. Soldiers in Malaysia win Awards 25 The Queen Mother Visits New Zealand 26 Geordie Becomes a Chief 34 Transcriptions of Authentic Maori Chant; Part 9 Mervyn McLean 41, 43 Maori Clubs 44 New Hostel Blocks at Christchurch 46 Play Centre News 49 Maori Leaders Receve Queen's Birthday Honours 53 Maori Women's Welfare League 55 Action Song and Poi Tunes Competition 56 FEATURES Haere Ki o Koutou Tipuna 2 People and Places 36 Books 58 Records, Alan Armstrong 62 Crossword Puzzle 64 CORRECTIONS: In Issue 55 there were a number of mistakes in the Maori text, for which we apologise. The photo caption on page 28 should finish ‘at Waitangi’ and the second girl in the picture on page 30 is Miss M. Robinson, not Miss Ihaka. In the fifth line of the third stanza of Wahine-iti's Death Chant, on page 21, ‘flea-infested’ should read ‘lice-infested’. In the article on page 5, it was incorrectly stated that Nukutaimemeha had been given back to the people of Carterton by the Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees. In fact, it has been given to the Board by Mrs okiri, to be used by the Church and the people of Carterton. COVER: One of the kuias at Turangawaewae during the tangi for King Koroki. BACK COVER: This rafter pattern at Te Whatu Manawa O Rehua meeting house in Christchurch is a most unusual one. Taken from an engraving on a rock at Shepherd's Creek, on the upper side of the Waitaki Gorge, it is a stylised kiwi, possibly represented as being inside the egg. It is considered that the engraving would have been done by Maoris waiting to go down stream after rounding up birds in the McKenzie country, possibly while the river was in flood.