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Parents watching boys on the job at Waiinuiomata National Publicity Studios Parents From Wanganui River Visit Wellington Following the successful visits by Taranaki and Wanganui parents to Wellington in 1965 and by Northland parents to Auckland, another group, this time from the Wanganui River area, visited Wellington last October. They were accommodated at the Arohanuiki-te-Tangata meeting house, Waiwhetu, and after their arrival on Sunday, 9 October were entertained by the Mawai-Hakona Club at Silverstream. Mr Rangi Pohika and Mr Ngore Takarangi, the two elders who accompanied the group. listen to recordings of Maori waiata in the listening room of Victoria University Library. With them is Koro Dewes, lecturer in Anthropology. The Anthropology department has deposited the recordings in the library for the use of students in their library time Monday was a busy day with visits to the Trade Training Centre at Gracefield, to the trainees on the job at Wainuiomata, Phillips Electronic Centre, lunch at the Trentham Hostel, a quick look at the new General Motors factory in Upper Hutt, a visit to the Woburn Workshops and after dinner, a session on Vocational Guidance. The group was welcomed to Victoria University on Tuesday by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr J. Williams, and Mr K. Dewes and Dr J. Metge of the Anthropology Department. Visits were made to several places at the University, the big library with its excellent study facilities being of particular interest to the parents. Following morning tea the parents went on to Wellington Teachers' Training College, where a full welcome from the Polynesian

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