for $2 million—a far cry from the days when 4s. per 100 feet was offered. Proprietors Puketapu 3A Block Inc. controls 16,000 acres, of which 4,000 acres is in grass and the rest is in virgin and worked-over bush. More development is constantly being planned. The highly successful farming operations are being carried out under the supervision of Mr P. Hura, O.B.E. Puketapu bush still has approximately six or seven more years of cutting at the present rate. Proprietors Hauhungaroa 2C Block Inc. originally had 8,000 acres, which was half in top quality bush. Unlike Puketapu, which has had to overcome difficult topography, the Hauhungaroa 2C bush has been on fairly easy contoured land. This incorporation later bought out 4,000 acres of the adjoining Waihaha 3D2 block from the Maori owners and also administers the 6,000 acre Whakarawa block under trust. The incorporation was formed in 1947 with Mr Robert Keepa as its chairman, a position he has held since. The management committee recognized early the need to replace the dwindling timber and so started land development on behalf of the 200 or more shareholders. In the first 13 years there were 70 million feet of timber taken from the block and today Mr W. Porteous is carrying out logging operations on behalf of the incorporation at a rate of about six million log feet a year. There is an estimated seven years of cutting left at the present rate. The bush roading has been useful for farm access, and since farm development started in 1958, 4,500 acres have been developed. Further development is following the bush working. A programme of re-afforestation has been undertaken and 50 acres is already planted in radiata pine and Douglas fir. According to Mr Keepa, with 300 acres of bush being cut each year, the plan is to plant 100 acres in trees and 200 acres in grass. The new farmland is being broken in by contractors while four permanent stockmen and three general hands are engaged to care for the 9,000 ewes, 3,000 dry sheep, 500 cows and the quantity of run cattle that is currently being carried on the property. Logging operations are still being carried out by yet another incorporation, Hauhungaroa 1C. Of a total of 10,000 acres, there are still three or four years of cutting left. There are 3,000 acres under grass. As the timber royalties on the block were not as substantial as those of Puketapu or the 2C block, the Department of Maori and Island Affairs has been carrying out the development on behalf of the owners. Oraukura 3 Block Inc. has had a close alliance of management with Hauhungaroa 1C and Puketapu blocks and is turning out to be a valuable block of land. In the early days, this area, which adjoins Puketapu, had some sheep farming carried out and the only flax mill in the area was located here. There are about 3,000 acres in the block of which 1,500 acres is either in grass or ready for sowing down. The Department of Maori and Island Affairs is also developing this block. The Hautu Incorporation at one time owned a block of land which the owners withheld from sale when the Crown bought the land for the Tongariro prison farms. The area held back was around the trout spawning grounds for Lake Taupo. In order to protect the spawning grounds the Crown exchanged a block of bush which is now being worked. So from small beginnings have grown large financial interests and the future is being protected for Maori land owners by incorporation.

Continued from page 27 years behind other boys of the same age when they left the hostels. In their free time the boys tended to move round in their hostel groups and sometimes were ‘marked out for trouble’ by other groups of teenagers. Speakers agreed that there was no single answer to the boys' problems, and the boys admitted that they were mostly unwilling to accept invitations to attend Maori Clubs or to visit the homes of local Maoris, except when they were relatives. The general opinion was that older people should interest themselves in organisations aimed at helping young people before and after they got into trouble, and let the community know they were prepared to help.