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The Te Pataka group in Sydney. Entertaining in Australia At the end of June the Te Pataka entertainers commenced a three month season at Sydney's Kings Cross-Rex Hotel, and danced in the street outside the new Tiki Bar. The first in Australia with an exclusively Maori decor, the bar was constructed to cater for the large number of New Zealand visitors and residents in the Kings Cross area. It is decorated with replicas of traditional Maori weapons and carvings, large photo murals of Maori community life and colour reproduction of New

Scholarship Holder Paratene Ngata of Tolaga Bay is the recipient of one of the scholarships awarded by the Ngarimu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board. He is now studying medicine at the University of Otago after receiving his secondary education at St. Stephen's School. Georgina Manunui National Publicity Studios Paratene Ngata National Publicity Studios Paratene is a son of Paraone Waahu Ngata and a great-grandson of Hoani Ngata, half-brother of Sir Apirana Ngata.

First Turakina Graduate Miss Georgina Manunui who completed her degree studies last year and has now graduated B.A. from Victoria University of Wellington is the first old girl of Turakina Maori Girls' College to do so. After boarding at Turakina from 1956 to 1959, Georgina attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School in 1960 and 1961. She has spent the last three years at Victoria majoring in English. Georgina belongs to the Ngati Tuwharetoa and Arawa tribes, and her father is George Manunui of Waitahanui.