Mr Haare Piahana and Mrs Ruiha Sage plant a tree at Gate Pa. President and vice-presidents of the League, Mrs M Te Kawa, Mrs R. Sage and Mrs M. Penfold. session, the remainder of the 40 remits were dealt with, this efficiency earning the president's thanks. After lunch Mr N. P. K. Puriri addressed the delegates on ‘Planning for the Future’. In outlining conditions likely to arise by the year 2,000, when there would be five million New Zealanders, one of every seven being a Maori, he suggested that the majority of Maori people would live in towns and monopolise the unskilled areas of industry, family ties would be broken, and the institution of the tangi would be a thing of the past. Giving an indication of the scientific wonders we can expect in the next 40 years, Mr Puriri showed the necessity of making a choice—either to ignore these trends, give up, or prepare for the future. He stressed the need for educated and skilled people, for better understanding, for the ‘re-building of our society on the basis of self-confidence, selfrespect and dignity’, for family spacing and good child-rearing practices, and the need to participate at all levels of society. ‘Accept the challenge of the future and be masters of your own destiny,’ he said. ‘Whaia te iti Kahurangi i na tuohu koe hei maungateitei.’ Further discussion of the proposed constitution completed the afternoon, and in the evening Miss Wallscott presented Rotorua D.C. with the Te Puea trophy, and Morrinsville I.B. with the Penrhyn Island trophy, after the judge, continued at foot of page 24