Members of the retiring executive pictured before the results of new elections were announced. Seated, from left, Mrs Ruby Grey, Secretary, Mrs Miraka Szaszy, acting President, and Mrs Merimeri Penfold, Vice-president. Standing, from left, Mrs Irirangi Tawhiwhirangi, representing the Maori and Island Affairs Department, Mrs Shalima Vuibau, Auckland, Miss Jean Sutherland, Health Department, Mrs Hine Weka, Tairawhiti, Mrs Kawa Kereama, Ikaroa, Mrs Hilda Wilson, Taitokerau, Mrs Maria Copeland, Waiariki, Mrs Rose Howe, Tainui, and Mrs Elizabeth Murchie, Te Waipounamu. Executive members in the traditional ‘grand march’ at the social evening that concluded the conference