is 63, and the club is in a strong financial position. One of the strongest groups is the carving class, in which up to 20 men under the tuition of Mr Riki Smith are learning the art of carving. ‘A donation of $20 was recently given to Robin Kora of Te Aute College who gained an American Field Scholarship. ‘The club is currently planning to invite senior Maori school leavers from six of the local colleges and high schools to attend a special function at Unilever factory, where they will hear talks including a talk from Mr W. Herewini of the Maori Affairs Department, who will speak on ‘Maori in Modern Society’. This will be followed by an evening meal, and a discussion panel, and it is hoped that the children will join with the club members in their normal club night. ‘A further project in which we are currently engaged is in the preparation of food parcels for Maori troops in South Vietnam. Using facilities at the factory it is proposed to prepare Karengo, and the Heretaunga Maori Executive have promised us support in our endeavours. ‘We have recently adopted the Karamu High School Maori Club, and we regularly supply speakers at lunch times to speak on topics suitable to the club. This has been greatly appreciated by the school, the club and the pupils. ‘Our club has received every support from the Maori and Pakeha community and in particular the employees of Unilever New Zealand Limited.’

Arai Te Uru, Dunedin This club is ten years old this year, and to commemorate this milestone, members are holding a Ball in November. The Ball will be held in Dunedin on Friday, 24 November, 1967, and dress will be formal. Saturday will be a free day and Sunday will take the form of a Church Service at the Maori Church at Otakou, combined with a picnic day for the children. The members of this club would be only too pleased to billet visitors from other parts of New Zealand. For further details contact the secretary, Mrs Nancye Morris, at 18 Ellesmere Street, Ravensbourne. Dunedin.

Tour of Schools by ‘Kere’ We have just returned from a trip to seven schools, all of them interesting, all of them different, and what a welcome we received, even though we were speaking on such ‘dry’ topics as teacher-training, university courses, apprenticeship requirements, hostel accommodation and boarding bursaries. Admittedly, we ‘sweetened the pill’ with Maori and Cook Island action-songs and hakas, but even so, teachers at all these schools said that there was interest and enthusiasm and a more realistic attitude towards the aims of schoolwork after we had been. Who were we, anyway, to go gallivanting around secondary schools in the Wellington province? We were a group of students from Wellington Teachers' College, following up an idea raised at the Maori Student Federation meeting last May, where it was suggested that school tours should be made to help prepare the many Maori children who must in a year or two make the ‘big move’ into the city. A grant was forthcoming from the J. R. MacKenzie Trust, and our lecturer, Mr B. Mitcalfe, arranged for seven schools to receive us over a long college week-end, from Friday to Monday. Away we went on a ski-truck that looked so much like a stock truck that at Hato Paora (Parorangi—near Feilding) the ‘Fathers’ came out, took one look at us and went back in again. They had thought it was the assignment of cattle for the farm. That misunderstanding cleared up, we soon settled in, met all the boys and Fathers Delaney, Atkins and Kinsella. The group performed for the whole school, breaking the programme with a brief talk on ‘varsity life and the difficulties of the first year. This was from Iwi Henare, an old boy of St