love and affection and I express the hope that you will both return one day to enjoy the friendships you have made here. Kia hora te marino; Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana; Kia tere te karohirohi i mua i to korua huarahi. May peace be widespread; May the sea glisten like the greenstone, And may the shimmer of light guide you on your way. To which I may add the words of the Psalmist, ‘The Lord preserve your coming in, and your going out, from this time forth, and forever more.’ Your Excellencies, I am greatly honoured and pleased, on behalf of this Festival, to present you with these gifts of our aroha. E iti noa ana, nā te aroha. Though small, ‘tis all that love can give. Tēnā korua! Tēnā tātou katoa! Talofa lava. Kia orana koutou katoatoa. Replying to Rev. Ihaka's speech, His Excellency said, ‘Tena koutou, aku hoa. ‘This is surely a great day for New Zealand! Only once before have representatives of all the Maori tribes been gathered together The non-competing Turangawaewae Team does the poi N.P.S. on one marae for a common purpose—and that was on the famous occasion of the Maori welcome to Her Majesty The Queen at Gisborne during the Captain Cook Bicentennial Celebrations two years ago. Today we add to representatives of all the Maori tribes (17 teams from eight Maori Council Districts)—some hundred or more of our friends from the Pacific Islands— from Samoa, the Tokelaus, Niue and the Cook Islands. Indeed it is a noble and historic gathering! ‘Remembering, as we should do on such an important occasion, our worthy and revered ancestors and forbears—it is not Ngati Poneke, runners-up in the aggregate, perform their winning action song. They also won the poi and came second equal in the haka N.P.S.