Opportunities Finally, there is no doubt that educational training is vitally necessary nowadays. For every educational qualification gained, a far greater number of opportunities become available. No matter what colour a person's skin is, nowadays, if he is qualified, he has a great chance of obtaining the position for which he has applied. There are qualified Maoris in insurance, land agencies, technical and professional fields, dress designing, the armed forces, the trades, the teaching profession, in law, medicine, dentistry, accountancy, university and training college lecturing and in all walks of life, but we need more and more, and this requires education to a greater degree than ever before. Nā reira me haere tātou mā te huarahi mātauranga o te iwi Pākehā me te huarahi mātauranga o te iwi Māori. Kia ora ano koutou katoa. T. K. Royal,, Assistant Officer for Maori Education, Education Department, Auckland.

Record Student Number This year's total of 92 Maori students is a record number for Auckland University. There are 27 first-year students and 65 others. Four Maori students will be capped this year and 14 are close to completing degrees, including a Ph.D., an M.A., and 12 Bachelors' degrees, each needing only two units for completion.

Land Development in Fiji by Eric Gibson On a recent tour of South Pacific countries, I spent two days with the Ministry of Natural Resources in Fiji, inspecting methods of land development being adopted on the main island, Viti Levu. The island comprises some six to seven thousand square miles of mainly bush covered mountains, with peaks to 4,000 feet, but with very fertile river basins and foothills. Eighty-four per cent of the land is owned as native reserves, some 10 per cent is freehold, and the remainder (mainly mountain-top country) is Crown land. The native reserves are held in large or small areas by matangali, that is, tribes, subtribes or families, who have over the centuries lived on and farmed the land to provide their own food. It is only in recent years that attempts to break down these areas into farms for individual settlements have been successful. A nominee of the matangali on settlement is permitted to borrow up to £300 from the Fiji Development Bank, to purchase harness, wire, seeds, and even a couple of horses if the matangali are unable to supply them. He is required to house himself in a thatched roof, bamboo hut, and no living allowance is payable to him. The development loan is charged at 6 ½%, and is repayable by way of deduction of half the value of all produce sold from the farm. Administratively, settlement is carried out by the Department of Natural Resources who have divided Fiji into three areas or divisions—central, northern and eastern— and each district has a Commissioner. Under each Commissioner there are a number of District Officers, each of whom has one, two or more Field Managers, and each Field Manager may have two or three Scheme Managers responsible to him, and each Scheme Manager may have 30 or 40 farms to look after. Neither the Field Manager nor the Scheme Manager is in any