People and Places Evening Post photo N. P. S. photographs

Woman of the Year The Maori Council's ‘Young Maori Woman of the Year’, Mrs Veronica Hauraki of Te Atatu, is pictured with her husband Joe. She has been described as a ‘one-woman liaison committee between Maori and Pakeha in her community’, and finds that her job as a Post Office teller enables her to meet many people she can help. Mrs Hauraki says she tries to teach her four children by example to go higher—to join things so they can have a position where they can voice an opinion, and another of her aims is to keep her family together by sharing as many activities as possible.

Rare Presentation At last year's Dominion Conference of the Maori Woman's Welfare League in Invercargill, their Patroness, Dame Te Atairangikaahu was presented with a gold medallion inset with diamonds by district Governor Rex Austin of Lions International, Named the International Order of the Lion, it is the highest award conferred to a lay person. The presentation was in response to the gift from New Zealand of a magnificent carved gateway which forms the entrance to the International Memorial Garden, in honour of the late Helen Keller, who inspired Lions International to make international support of the blind their No. 1 service project.

Visit to St Peter's In 1968, the closing of the Marist Brothers St Peter's Maori College at Northcote was considered because of lack of facilities, but the fund-raising efforts of a Parents-Teachers-Friends Association paid for considerable expansion — new classrooms, library, ablution block and hostel. The Minister of Maori Affairs was shown areas for further expansion when he visited the college earlier this year.