continued from page 5 started two years ago have also proved popular, attracting an almost capacity field. When a local elder, Titi Tihu, named the new dining room at Ngapuwaiwaha pa, Taumarunui, ‘Rangikapuia’ about seven years ago, he expressed the hope that it would become the meeting place of people, especially the young, from all quarters of the country. The wish has been realised with the regular groups of outside competitors who have been accommodated at the pa in the centre of the township, for the many sports fixtures for Maori competitors in the last five years. E. R. Clark

Te-Ao Hou The treaty is signed there's nothing to be done we lost our truth the truth of our fathers we the sons go only back to a mist of forgottenness where the sleepy pa shakes itself but slowly dies overgrown with the weeds of time and disuse as disused places appear in a lovers lost eye that twinkles So I lost myself and a million more besides wrapped I was in the blankets that bought our land in the half-truths designed to kill a nation but worse still is the pretence the noise of my unfolding the promises of a false god and the people who rule Him. I salute your victory that in visionless revision stole my heritage and left the censored version. John Barrett

Alien in My Land If we pass, Shake my hand. I am original; I hold the truth of all mankind bottled in my genetic structure. I belong to a land you have not found nor ever shall I am the object of all past unity— time, place, and action— Driven by the anxious wailing of my forefathers to seek peace in your land. So shake my hand. John Barrett

Phantom Sitting at the bus stop I saw Whera Old Makuta's dainty grandchild Going home, A basket on her thin arm Some bundles Tied up with coloured string: Presents for Xmas. Her mini-skirt dress so bright Her skin light. The shoes upon her pretty feet so neat. Could he have seen, Old Makuta Would not have believed His eyes. Marie Andersen Mrs Anderson, now of Auckland, acquired a love and interest for the Maori people, through her husband's father, who was brought up from childhood by Maoris at Otaki after losing both his parents during the 1860 Waikato wars.