photographs by Brian Morell In the Waitotara valley the students looked at these rua koauau—pits for storing kumara. Stephens, whose first hand experience of the problems of social life, accommodation and adjusting to the freedom of ‘varsity life proved most valuable, provoking a whole barrage of questions during the informal supper session afterwards. At Turakina Maori Girls' College it was teaching that most interested the seniors. Mrs Tiria Asher, who had been working for many years as an uncertificated assistant in schools all over the North Island, spoke on the advantages of teaching, not only as an interesting and varied job for young people, but also for married women who would wish to return to this work when their families had grown up. Tiria was astonished to find that at some of the schools the pupils didn't realise students at Teachers' College were actually paid to David Andrews, Tiria Asher and Barry Mitcalfe took into a double rua. learn, so that parents did not have to find money to send children to college. Similarly, many of the Teachers' College students do university subjects with ‘all fees paid by the college, and those who do well are given a year of full-time university work on a teacher's bursary. Mac Burt, another second-year Teachers' College student, with very close links with Ngaruawahia, described the Maori and Pacific subjects one could do at university, ranging from Maori Studies and Maori Language through to Stage III, to Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies up to an Honours level, i.e. four years of study. He also took care to outline the $270 boarding bursary available, and to stress the need for two years of sixth form work before entering university. College pupils were interested to hear of the alternatives to the ‘bonded’ bursary which offers free university work and living expenses in exchange for a year of service in a government department (on pay) for every year of study. Both Mac Burt and Murray Bruce, speaking on apprenticeship, stressed the worsening economic situation and the way it would hit casual workers first, but even so it was still possible for a boy not sure about his future career to attend university during the eightmonth academic year and save the necessary money to support himself by working in the freezing works for the remaining four months. Mac himself had done this sort of thing; so had Tom Ihaka, the leader of the action-song group; it sounded much more convincing coming from them than from any vocational guidance officer. The group was struck by the tightening of