paying tribute to the achievements of the past and drawing attention to the ‘Maori casualties in the field of education’, the ‘few at the top and many at the bottom of the educational ladder’, and the ‘need to promote a much greater degree of togetherness and oneness between the two racial groups which live in this country’. Following this, Mrs Murphy, Mayoress of Murupara, and Mrs H. Potaka presented on behalf of Murupara Isolated Branch a beautifully carved waka huia to hold the Dominion President's Chain of office. Guest speaker was Mrs M. J. Drayton, principal of Tauranga Girls' College, who defined ‘education’ as ‘the passing on to the young by the old the sort of things considered important by the old’. She stressed that education should not only instruct the child for a means of livelihood but also teach her a way of life based on a set of values. She compared the Maori family's value of co-operation with the Pakeha family's value of competitiveness, saying that although they were both good they were different and that families must try to marry the two sets of values. Maori families couldn't put Pakeha values away and turn their backs on them, neither could they throw over their Maori values and adopt Pakeha ones—this was not sensible. She stressed that it was Delegates in the grounds of the Mission House at Tauranga. Mrs M. Te Kawa of Tokomaru Bay with her kuia, 92-year-old Mrs Ngaropi White. not only Maori families that needed to work out these values, realise and use two sets. The answers given that evening by a panel of eight pupils from the four local secondary schools to questions from chairman Mr M. Te Hau, produced possibly the most exciting session of the conference. (See Younger Readers' Section). Their intelligent approach to difficult problems, their broad outlook and their determination to hold on to their Maoritanga earned high praise. In a most businesslike Wednesday morning