is laid aside. Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Maui Pomare, Tai Mitchell, Dr Tutere Wirepa, Bishop Bennett, Princess Te Puea and others who helped to draw that net have passed on. Those of us who remain are now the sedentary elders who can but watch and pray that the new net will have as good as or better fishing than the old. We can but repeat the words applied to us in the wonderful days of our youth, ‘The New World is for the young’.

A new world has opened up. The old Department of Native Affairs is now the Department of Maori Affairs, and for the first time in its history, its Under-Secretary is a gentleman of Maori blood. Appropriately enough, the Department has decided to issue a Journal entitled Te Ao Hou. To the Department, I offer my congratulations, and to Te Ao Hou I wish a long and successful life in the service of the Maori people. To the homes which Te Ao Hou will reach, I send my greetings and aroha. To the younger generation, I wish all success. Success cannot be attained by resting on the doings of our ancestors, but by our own determined efforts. Success is the reward of hard work, sustained effort, and unyielding courage. God grant you these and more, so that, with your pakeha fellow-citizens, you may share in bringing honour and happiness to this land of ours.