TOKOROA FESTIVAL contd from p. 39 the finishing touch. All the participating schools sent very capable pupils to display these arts and the whole Festival was performed by these children. They handled it and accomplished it well. This meant that all who participated saw meaning in what they were learning, and in being given an ultimate goal, they worked with more interest and vigour. The children gained much valuable knowledge of their own culture, and even more important, it gave them a deep sense of pride in what they were doing and accomplishing. This was their culture and part of their heritage—no wonder they gained so much. Over 1,400 children saw these displays over the two days and gained unlimited knowledge and valuable material for follow-up classroom activities. On 10 August, the Festival ended with a Grand Maori Concert lasting three very enjoyable hours. The four parties to perform were: Matarawa Primary School, Waioeka Maori School, Bethlehem Maori School, Tokoroa Intermediate School. Overall, this child-centred Maori Culture Festival was an enormous success. It proved the worth and capabilities of children who are interested and can see meaning in what they are doing. All visitors gained much valuable information, and the exchange of knowledge, the friendships that were made, and even the participation of a Pakeha, a Pacific Islander, and a Canadian girl did much to promote the Maoritanga we need so much in our children of today.

JOHN WAITITI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

The magnitude of the contribution of the late Mr John Waititi to the advancement of his own people and to the wider community in which he played an active part has been brought more and more to notice as others endeavour to fill the gap left by his death. He has been replaced on various organizations by other people who most fortunately are proving themselves competent and willing, but it is in the more informal aspects of effort for the Maori people that his loss is perhaps most keenly felt. A measure of the breadth of his activity may be gauged by the fact that examination of his papers and records show that in the past five years he was a member of or was associated with the work of nearly 80 organizations. It is quite certain that there were many more, of which there was no record kept. An indication of his enthusiasm and dedication to a cause in which he believed is given in records of the campaign to raise funds for the Maori Education Foundation of which he was co-chairman for the Auckland region. During the height of the campaign in 1962, John delivered 96 speeches to raise funds and to explain the aims of the foundation. The ordinary man or woman who finds letter-writing an exacting duty may be excused for feeling somewhat awed by John's record of 450 letters answered during this period. The Maori language was, of course, a ruling passion. Its study was one of his official duties but, as in most things he tackled, he brought to it more enthusiasm and deeper understanding than mere competency demanded. Perhaps the most material records of his endeavours are his text books in the Rangatahi series, but in addition he was language tutor at one time or another at St Stephen's School. Queen Victoria School, Auckland University Department of University Extension, Ardmore Teachers' College, Palmerston North Teachers' College, Auckland Teachers' College and the Maori class at Auckland Prison. He was chief examiner in Maori for the school certificate examination. He found time—no one is quite sure how—to be a member of the Anthropology and Maori Race Section of the Auckland Institute with a term as president of that body, of the Inter-racial Committee, of the Auckland Regional Committee of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and of the University Maori Club of which he was president and then patron. He was vice-president of the Police and Citizens Boystown Committee and a member of the Auckland Half-million Celebrations Committee. When groups and organizations, particularly