room at the end of the hall and painted it, and now this little room, 11′ × 10′, serves as our library. Shelving has been made from 40lb apple boxes nailed together, fixed to the walls and painted. Half inch rounded moulding covers the joins, and attractive shelf signs in engraved formica indicate the various sections of the book stock. Wooden bookends which we hope will eventually be carved, have meantime been covered in waxed paper with rafter pattern designs. Two large panels of gibraltar board await an artist to design murals. Members of the Advancement Committee from Ratana Pa asked for advice and assistance, and went off to find a spare room they could use as a library. They found an army hut, and shifted it to a more central position in the pa. From this time onwards, most of the books donated were sent on to Ratana where Miss M. Widdowson, a member of the Advancement Committee and Librarian in Charge of the School Library Service at Wanganui, has prepared them for use as soon as the hut is repaired and painted. Visitors to the Library at Punga-haruru have included delegations from the Hawera Educational Advancement Committee and the Waverly-Patea Educational Advancement Committee; Mr John Grace, a trustee of the Maori Education Foundation, Mrs I. R. Ratana, M.P., and Mr Harré, a new Officer for Maori Education.

Aid From Country Library Service At Punga-haruru there are now about 850 of our own books on the shelves, over 200 of the earlier books having been weeded out because they were shabby, or out of date or not being borrowed. The School Library Service has continued its regular loans to the children's section, and at the end of last year Miss Helen Cowey of the Country Library Service, Palmerston North, who is also Convenor of the N.Z. Library Association's Maori Library Committee, visited us to discuss help. The first loan of 150 books arrived from the C.L.S. in January, and the C.L.S. book van will be calling twice yearly to exchange supplies. Punga-haruru began officially lending books to the adult residents of Putiki on Saturday, March 12, 1966. In true Maori tradition the doors had been hospitably if unofficially open for some time, and borrowing had already

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