CONTENTS Page Tolaga Bay and its District High School by Dr D. Sinclair 6 How Our Great-Grandparents Lived by Tiniku Moore 10 Of Taniwha, Ngarara and How Paeroa Got Its Name, by Leo Fowler 12 Education in Two Cultures Can Be a Success by Frank McPherson 15 An Appreciation of ‘Maori’ by Allan Armstrong 18 Origin of the Polynesians by Peter Kaua 21 A Famous Haka, Edited by Rev. Tipi Kaa 22 East Coast Tribes Have a Modern Whare Wananga, by Leo Fowler 24 Tennis Comes to Life in the North by Antigone Kefala 28 Jim Morris, Gun Shearer of the Wairarapa by Wattie Carkeek 36 Pictures in our Heads, by Otto Klineberg 40 Frederick Augustus Bennett, by Hemi Matenga 44 The Concert, by Kate Shaw 47 Uenuku or Kahukura (The Rainbow God of War), by Tuta Nihoniho 50 Proverbial and Popular Sayings of the Maori by Rev. Kingi Ihaka 54 Maori Children Come to Life in Remarkable Novel, by E. G. Schwimmer 57 Crossword Puzzle 60 A Home at Last, by Nicky Barber 61 The egg and us 62 The Minister of Maori Affairs: The Rt. Hon. W. Nash. The Secretary for Maori Affairs: M. Sullivan. Management Committee: Chairman: B. E. Souter, Asst. Secretary. Members: M. R. Jones, W. T. Ngata, E. G. Schwimmer, G. H. Stanley, M. J. Taylor. Editor: E. G. Schwimmer, M.A. Associate Editor (Maori text): W. T. Ngata, Lic. Int. Sponsored by the Maori Purposes Fund Board. Subscriptions to Te Ao Hou at 7/6 per annum (4 issues) or £1 for three years' subscriptions at all offices of the Maori Affairs Department and P.O. Box 2390, Wellington, New Zealand. Registered at G.P.O., Wellington, for transmission through the post as a magazine. Editorial Address: P.O. Box 2390, Wellington published by the department of maori affairs march 1959 printed by pegasus press ltd.

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