head. ‘New ways,’ and he sat staring in front of him. ‘New ways are bad,’ Ana said. ‘It's not for the old people.’ Some of the younger couples were talking over their gates. It was a stiff new way of acting. Benny her grandson came up the patch ‘Hello boy,’ Ana said. ‘What you been doing? Haven't seen you to-day.’ The child came towards her smiling. ‘Going down to swim,’ he told her. ‘Ah, you got a long way to go now for a swim Benny. Not like before.’ ‘I don't mind,’ the child said. ‘I'm going to get a bicycle for Christmas, and I'll ride down, quickly, be there in a minute.’ ‘Ah but you'd do better to walk Benny. You'll forget how to use your legs.’ ‘Coming down?’ Maui asked. Ana rose from the step. ‘Yes, we'll take a walk,’ she said. ‘Come on Benny.’ Most evenings they went for a walk. Back to the site of the old pa. She and Maui and sometimes Maui's old parents, and perhaps one of the children if they were not down swimming. Ana would sit on the site where the cottage had been and all the loneliness and frustration would seep away, leaving her content. Maui would stroll round, kicking the grass with his foot, or just stand staring. As darkness fell Maui would say, ‘Come on Ana, time we went,’ But he would never say ‘time to go home’. This was home, this empty paddock where the pa had once stood and where she still saw the children at play round the tumbled down cottages. Each time she returned it was like a home-coming. Reluctantly she followed Maui back to the new housing lot.

A Chinese-Maori Girl sun smooths hair black as a midnight pool, and dusts gold on satin skin, and gives glow to nephrite-amber eyes, while the poised note of the bone flute and the tune of the two-stringed lute are fluidly caught in the grace of her limbs. child, beauty has sprung in you her newest race, meet inheritors of a yet time-green land. —Bernard Gadd

New Ratana Church President Mrs Te Reo Hura of Patea was elected president of the Ratana Church movement at its annual synod in January. Mrs Hura, a daughter of the late T. W. Ratana, founder of the movement, has a vast knowledge and personal experience of the events leading up to the formation of the movement. Mr H. K. Edmonds of Auckland was reaffirmed as vice-president of the church. Queen Te Atairangikaahu and many Waikato people attended the celebrations, indicating a desire for increasing co-operation between the two groups in the future.

Maori Song Competition A very pleasant function was held on 5 December last, ber last, when prizewinners in the N.Z.B.C.'s Maori Action Song and Poi Tune competition were presented with their trophies, carved by Mr C. Tuarau of the Dominion Museum. The Chairman of the N.Z.B.C., Mr C. A. MacFarlane, spoke of the competition as an example of a new net going fishing, and said that the organisers were extremely pleased with the wealth of talent the net had brought to the surface. He paid tribute to Mr Leo Fowler who had cast the net and directed where it should be cast, to the Maori Purposes Fund Board who had assisted with pulling in the net, and to the judges, who had sorted out the choice fish. Dr Doug Sinclair, on behalf of the judges, paid tribute to the late Hetekia Te Kani Te