ment, completed a seven-day visit to Hong Kong and Bangkok on 2 April, with one of several performances. Here the New Zea- land Ambassador to Thailand, Mr I. G. L. Stewart, is welcoming the group. The ten men and six ‘service wives’ drew capacity crowds at all their performances. Next day they were due to return to duty at Terendak, Malaysia.

Vietnam Padre Padre W. Vercoe (at right), chats with Lance-Corporal R. N. Bush of Pukekohe, at the Nui Dat base of the Anzac Battalion, in Phouc Tuy, Souh Vietnam, before Corporal Bush left on his way back to Malyasia with the Victor Company of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. Padre Vercoe has a huge parish, extending half the entire length of South Vietnam, from Phouc Tuy province and Saigon in the south, to Binh Dinh province in the Central Highlands — wherever New Zealand troops or civilians are working. He spends most of his time with the combat troops on the field, and has accompanied them on all of their major operations, coming under fire himself on a number of occasions. Well-liked by the troops because of the way he has lived and worked with them in all conditions, Padre Vercoe has been the mainstay of the Maori Concert Party, and is also active in civil assistance work in the villages near Nui Dat. He makes regular visits to the civilian and military medical teams in Qui Nhon and Bong Son, and to the Headquarters element of New Zealand Force in Saigon.