for help. Posters, information material and replicas of Maori artifacts were provided, and an officer of the Embassy visited the school to show films and to talk to the pupils. Mrs Mel Taylor (née Georgina Bristowe), wife of the Deputy Director of the SEATO Public Information Office, taught the girls Maori action songs and stick games, which were performed throughout the two-day exhibition. They made their costumes themselves, and their exhibit, called ‘Kiwi Corner’, was a great success.

Ngai-Te-Rangi Challenge Shield This shield has been presented by the Minister of Tourism and Publicity for competition in the intermediate section of the annual competitions at Tauranga. The two figures on the shield are sea monsters called marakihau. They have human bodies, fishes' tails, and long tubular tongues for sucking in fish. These figures often represent a local Tauranga ancestor named Te-Tahi-o-Te-Rangi, a tohuniw who was marooned on White Island by his tribe. By powerful incantations he was able National Publicity Studies to call a whale to his assistance, and he travelled to the mainland on its back. After his death he was said to have become a sea monster. The band of kowhaiwhai is a Ngai-Te-Rangi pattern copied from Te Whetu meeting house.

Champion Gymnast Jan Wilson, daughter of Mr and Mrs B. Wilson of Harris Street, Huntly, is an accomplished young gymnast. She recently earned the distinction of being for the second year running the topscoring girl in the primary competition of the New Zealand Gymnastic Championships. With two other pupils of Huntly West School, Marcia Hetet and Veda Berryman, Jan helped the South Auckland Primary Schools' gymnastic team to win the 1968 national title.

Te Aute Dux Tiopira Baker has been awarded the Sir Peter Buck Memorial Medal presented by the Department of Maori and Island Affairs, as Dux of Te Aute College.