Pa at Orakau. On 2 April 1864, the British entered the pa. Major Mair tried to save the life of Hine, but while he was attending to another woman who had been wounded, Hine was bayoneted. The dead were buried in the trenches where they had been slain; a monument now marks the site of the heroic stand by Ngati Raukawa, assisted as they were by the Tuhoe people of the Urewera. For the next few years, oppressed by changing fortunes, the captain moved up and down the Bay of Plenty coast, engaging in a number of occupations to do with trading, or with the sea. His fortitude and his courage gave him strength to weather the losses and the hardships he sustained. He lived to see that same strength and character portrayed in his sons and grandsons, many of whom distinguished themselves, not only in peace but in war. Several held important Government positions. In the Maori Wars and in the Great War, Tapsell descendants fought side by side against the enemies of the Sovereign — indeed in the Great War, a Tapsell fought at the side of his son in the Maori Battalion. Tapsell's last wish was that his people should not cry for him; he wished a gun to be fired as his coffin was lowered into the earth — that ws the only mourning he desired. And had it not been that a daughter was already buried in the cemetery at Maketu, he would have wished to have joined his old comrades by having his body committed to the deep.

Maori Welfare Officers Meet The Minister The Maori Welfare Officers' Association held a conference at Parewahawaha Marae, Bulls, at the end of September, to discuss matters important to their future status and duties. The conference was notable for the fact that the officers limited themselves to in-depth discussion on only two remits, and that the opinions expressed were completely frank and down-to-earth. This proved to be most stimulating and successful, and one result is that committee members under their new chairman, Mr Sam Mihaere of Palmerston North, will have further discussions with senior departmental officers on the recommendations made at the conference. Guest of honour was the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon. Matiu Rata, who welcomed the opportunity to meet the officers formally and spoke of the immense importance of the Maori Welfare Division as it had developed from the organisation set up during the Second World War. He stressed that the division's fundamental task was to ensure the means whereby the Maori people were able to do things for themselves, and repeated that this would remain the central concern of Government. He spoke of the social, economic and cultural advancement of the Maori people having reached a stage where impatience, dismay and disenchantment with the progress being