i Rongotai, e whakaeke atu ana ki tō mātou waka, hei mau i a mātou ki Akarana. I te hāpāhi o te ono ka mānu atu, tau rawa atu ki Ākarana i te rua tekau mā waru meneti pāhi i te whitu. I reira ka puta ko Te Atairangikaahu, te Kuini Māori, ki te whakatau i a mātou. Ka mutu ngā mihi a āna kaumātua ki a mātou, ka whakatakotoria mai ā mātou taonga hei tukunga mā mātou ki ō mātou rangatira o te Ford Foundation. I ora ai mātou ki ā mātou niu wero, he mea āta whakairo, kāore ngā mea e rua i riterite, rerekē te tauira o tētahi i tō tētahi, kotahi mā tētahi, mā tētahi o mātou, i whai koha ai tēnei, tēnei, o mātou ki ō mātou rangatira ina tae ki New York. Tekau ngā niu nei, ngā rākau nei, hei tukunga mā mātou. Ka waimarie rā. I te hāpāhi o te iwa i te pō, ka rere tō mātou manu, kāore i roa ka ngaro atu a Ākarana ki roto ki te pō, ā, tō mātou waka tērā e rere ana i te takiwā, e whitu māero ki runga, e rima rau māero i te hāora, ā, he whā tekau meneti anake anō e tairanga ana, ka paoho mai te reo o te kaiārahi i tō mātou manu, ko te tāima ki Niu Tīreni ināianei, ko te tekau meneti pāhi i te tekau, ā, ko te tāima ki Hawaii, ko te rua tekau mā waru meneti pāhi i te tekau mā rua i te ata o te Wenerei, kei mua kē hoki tātou i a Hawaii, i a Āmerika e haere ana. E waru hāora e rere atu ana i te pō, ka tau mātou ki Hawaii i te koata ki te waru, i te ata o te Wenerei. Ka heke atu mātou, ka warea ki te mātakitaki haere, huri rawa ake kua riro kē tō mātou waka ki Los Angeles. Ka tīmata ētahi o mātou ki te amuamu, ki te whakapae, arā, nā te nohonga atu o tō mātou kaiārahi ki Los Angeles, tē kore ai e haere mai ki Hawaii whakataki ai i a mātou, koinei ka mahue mātou. Nā reira, ina tae atu ki Los Angeles me karawhiu te pōnaho nei, i tana whakaaro kore ko Hawaii te paepae o te takahanga waewae tapu ki runga oneone o Āmerika, arā, koinei te tomokanga atu ki Āmerika. Ko etahi anō o mātou kāhore kē i āwangawanga ake, pai rawa atu tēnei mahuenga, i āhua roa atu ai ki ngā takahanga o ō tātou tūpuna, ā, o muri rawa mai nei i a rātou, o Te Rangihīroa. Ko Oahu hoki te moutere nei, ā, ko Honolulu tōna tino tāone rongonui, o Hawaii, i takatakahia ai e rātou mā i neherā. Tō mātou waka i rere atu ai, ko te Air New Zealand, ā, i Hawaii ka hoki whakatekāinga was gathered at the Rongotai Airport, ready to board the plane that would take us to Auckland. At 6.30 p.m. our plane left, to land at Auckland at twenty minutes past seven. There, Te Atairangikaahu, the Maori Queen, arrived to greet us. At the conclusion of her elders' speeches, we were presented with gifts for us to present to our hosts of the Ford Foundation. We were fortunate in being provided with our presents of challenge batons, beautifully carved, no two alike, each with a different design, one for each of us, so that we severally had something worthwhile to present to our host on our arrival at New York. There were ten of these batons, to present. So we were fortunate indeed. At 9.30 p.m. our flight left and in a short time Auckland disappeared into the dark of the night, and there was our plane flying through space, seven miles up, at five hundred miles an hour, and we were only forty minutes aloft when our pilot's voice gave us the New Zealand time as ten minutes past ten, whilst the time at Hawaii was twenty-eight minutes past twelve on Wednesday morning, for we were ahead of Hawaii and America. We were eight hours in flight through the night, when we landed at Hawaii at quarter to eight on Wednesday morning. We deplaned and were so engrossed in sightseeing, that when we remembered, our plane had already left for Los Angeles. Some of us began grumbling, and saying the fault was that our agent had remained in Los Angeles, when he should have come to Hawaii to meet us, and so we had missed our plane. Therefore, we should not spare the worthless oaf, for not realising that Hawaii was the threshold for a first visit to American soil, that is, this was the gateway to America. Some of us needless to say were quite unconcerned, rather they were pleased that we had missed, so that they might have more time to tread on the soil their forbears had trodden, and where, much later, Sir Peter Buck, Te Rangihiroa, had also walked. This island was Oahu, and its capital was Honolulu, a city well known at one time as the stamping ground of the ancients of yore. Our plane to Hawaii was Air New Zealand, and from there it turned for home