iho, i te Rōpū o Arahina ngā poi, ngā haka, ngā waiata. Te pō whakamutunga nā ngā Rōpū Wāhine o Whīti ngā manaaki ngā kai o īnia, ngā kanikani hoki. I reira ka manaaki a Arahina i te reo Māori, Pākehā hoki. Te aroha a te Rōpū o P.P.S.E.A.W.A. o Whīti he niho wēra e kīia nei he ‘tabua’. He taonga nui tēnei. Ko te mea nui o tēnei haere e kore e taea te tā, ēngari ko te aroha, te whakaaro kotahi, te manaaki, ehara i te mea i te moutere anake o Whīti, ēngari i roto tonu i te Rōpū o tēnei peka o te Rōpū Wāhine Māori. Nā rātau i toha ki ērā whanaunga te kākano o te aroha kia tipu ai i waenganui i ō tātau whanaunga o ngā moutere o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. Nō roto i tēnei haere ka ū mai ngā wāhine o Whīti me ngā wāhine o īnia hei manuhiri mā te Rōpū wāhine nei. Nō reira, Arahina, nā koutou tā tātau haere i whakarangatira; nā koutou tātau ngā Māori o Aotearoa i hāpai ki runga; nā koutou i wāhi te huarahi mō ngā haere pēnei kai mua e tū mai ana. Kia nui ngā mihi ki a koutou. The Deputy Mayor of Suva welcomed the women at Suva's Town Hall, where Mrs Te Kawa presented him with a Maori kit and a message from the Mayor of Auckland.

Visit of New Zealand Maori Women's Welfare League to Fiji An idea for promoting goodwill and friendship among women of the Pacific area which had its beginning at the Conference of the Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women's Association in Tonga, culminated in a visit to Fiji by the Arahina Branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League. Led by Mrs Maraea Te Kawa, whose idea it was, and fostered by Mrs Thelma Robinson, eighteen members of the M.W.W.L. arrived in Fiji where they spent four days and four nights in the village of Narewa as guests of the people. They joined in the life of the village sleeping in bures on mats on the floor and eating Fijian food. After resting all day the party was officially welcomed at a service in the Wesleyan Church at Nadi by the Roko Tui Ra and the Revd Maika Toro. In her reply the leader of the party said, ‘We are very grateful for this first official welcome to your country. In our group from Aotearoa, we do not all belong to one church, and we do not all belong to one race, but we come to be united with you as one family in the House of our Father, and there could not be a more suitable and fitting place for us to be. The pages of the world's history are written in blood and as we turn each page we read of fighting and bloodshed, so we come in love and goodwill and fellowship because we believe that in this way we can help to bring peace to this troubled world.’ The visiting group was widely representative, composed of both Maori and Pakeha women, their age groups ranging from single girls to grandmothers. From an occupational angle, there were housewives, office and factory workers, Welfare Officers, a florist,