men's excellent work should be enhanced with tukutuku and kowhaiwhai. Traditional materials proved extremely difficult to obtain, so the hall is decorated with modern substitutes. Our two pictures show the Minister of Maori Affairs talking with the little girl who was first across the threshhold and her father, and the Waihirere Cultural Group performing outside the meeting house, Te Mana O Turanga’.

Visit to Parliament A long way from home were these pupils of Ngata College, Ruatoria, East Coast, who had just spent several hours at the House National Publicity Studios of Representatives, having lunch and meeting members, during a week-long educational trip. They also toured trade training facilities and were given examples of employment in the city.

Minister at Waitara ‘He'll listen to us, this minister,’ was the comment at Waitara, as it had been in other places, when the Hon. Duncan Maclntyre sat down to chat after the formalities and presentation of the Ahuwhenua Trophy were over. The winners were, in the dairy section, Mr Charles Bailey of Waitara, whose efficiency in pasture management and conservation were considered outstanding; and in the sheep and cattle section, Mr W. Konui of Manunui, Taumarunui, who achieved consistent 100% lambing in a dry season and in difficult country.