for the Maori Affairs Department for two years, Europa Oil for one year, then went to Australia in 1966.

Baptismal Font in Australia Senior Bishop Coadjutor of Sydney, the Rt Rev. F. O. Hulme-Moir, is here explaining the significance of the carving on the font to Miss Pam McLeod, a former ‘Miss New Zealand’, now an Air New Zealand receptionist in Sydney. The baptismal font was a gift from the Maori people to St John's Church, Parramatta, Sydney, the parish from which the Rev. Samuel Marsden first brought the Christian gospel to New Zealand 150 years ago.

‘Mrs Taumarunui’ To win first a queen carnival as the Maori candidate, and then the ‘Mrs Taumarunui’ title in the New Zealand Plunket Society contest, made the year 1968 a busy one for Mrs Martha Taiaroa of Taumarunui. Martha is a member of a leading Ngati Tuwharetoa family, with strong Tainui affiliations through her father. Her husband, Mr Archie Taiaroa, is Maori welfare officer at Taumarunui and is an elder of Ngati Haua. They have one son, Rakeipoho. When the Red Cross Society held a queen