xing there, Nick waited for his brother to start the thing up. ‘It doesn't go yet,’ Luke said. ‘I haven't finished it yet. It still wants a few things done to it. But it'll go all right.’ He sounded so self-assured. But the thing never ever went, apart from a few lurches on the work-shop bench much later on when Luke said he finally had the thing finished and all the children gathered in there to witness it. And Nick somehow knew that the thing never ever would go. His engine wasn't made to propel as heavy an object as Luke's truck. But Luke doggedly persisted, and the engine of Nick's toy remained there for over a month, the spring getting weaker and weaker, the more Luke wound it and the more it strained to push that great weight along. Finally Luke gave up and one afternoon when Nick came home from school he found the engine of his toy back in place again. But by now the spring in it had been so weakened that it didn't go nearly as well as it had done before Luke had taken it out. On hearing this all Luke had to say was, ‘Course it does. It's just as good as it used to be. What's the matter with you boy?’ After that it didn't take much for the boy to grasp hold of as an excuse for hating his older brother. Mental and Social Health Week About 1,000 people attended one or more sessions during a five-day Mental and Social Health week organised at Taumarunui by the Taumarunui and District Maori Education Advancement Society. The Mayor, Mr L. A. Byars, who declared the week open, commended the Society on its initiative. There was no suggestion that because a Maori organisation arranged the campaign Maori people suffered more from mental or social illnesses than the European or that they were more prevalent at Taumarunui than at any other town. But social and mental health laws a community concern on a National basis, which could not be taken for granted. As the official party arrived for the opening addresses at the Taumarunui War Memorial Hall it was greeted by a powhiri by members of the Te Rangatahi Maori Group. The opening address, on bi-cultural relations, was given by the Director of the Mental Health Division, Dr S. W. P. Mirams. Other speakers included the medical officer of health, Wanganui, Dr C. M. Collins, a child psychologist from Hamilton, Dr J. Blackburn, the assistant director (medical) for the Plunket Society, Auckland, Dr Margaret Liley and the head nurse at Tokanui Mental Hospital, Mr J. Nolan. There were several panels, some of which were questioned by teenagers. Mr M. Te Hau, Auckland University, took part in two of the panels, one on factors causing mental stress and the other on ‘Areas of Assistance’. New Telford Trainee A Manunui boy, Derek T. Kapinga, was the only Maori boy selected by the Department of Maori and Island Affairs for the 1970 intake at the Telford Farm Training Institute at Balclutha. Derek was accredited his University Entrance examination at Taumarunui High School during 1969. He was a prefect, senior champion athlete for 1969, a member of the first fifteen and of the King Country secondary schools Rugby team. He is a member of the Ngati Tuwharetoa and Ngati Maniapoto tribes and his parents farm in the Ngapuke Valley at Manunui. After completing his year at Telford, Derek hopes to take an agricultural course at Lincoln.