in a beauty or personality parade prior to the ‘Miss Canterbury’ show. Aroha, one of the family of six girls and two boys, is a direct descendant of two Maori chiefs, Tuahuriri and Te Maiharoa. She is a great-grandchild of Erihapiti Manawatu Te Ra.

Special Prize Bertha Te Ua Ua received a special prize at Wellington's Trade Trainee Graduation ceremony on 16 November, 1967, from Mrs Roberts, wife of the Assistant District Officer. She was top student in the Department of Maori Affairs' scheme which each year trains a small number of Maori girls from rural areas as shorthand typists. After only a year's tuition Bertha sat both the Junior and Senior Government shorthand examinations, the first trainee to sit both at once. Bertha, whose ambition is to be a private secretary, was a pupil at Opotiki College, where she sat and passed University Entrance.

To Nurse in Vietnam In February Miss Whaiatua Hapi, daughter of Waaka and Peggy Hapi and a member of the Tuwharetoa tribe left her job as senior theatre sister at Rotorua Hospital to spend a year as theatre sister at Qui Nhon Hospital in Vietnam. After leaving Queen Victoria Girls' College. Miss Hapi trained at Rotorua Public Hospital, graduated in 1963 and became a theatre sister. For a few months in 1967 she was Assistant Matron at a Jewish Home for the Aged, and from May to November attended the Waikato National Publicity Studios Hospital Board's Theatre Post-Certificate School, receiving training in all fields of surgery, theatre administration, teaching and supervising student nurses.

Success at Tauranga The Junior section of the National Maori Cultural Championships held at the Memorial Hall. Tauranga, on 21 October, 1967, was won by the Ruatokia Primary School Group, pictured below with their trophy. Tokoroa Inter-