Bay his biased version of the expedition, knowing full well that his opponents would not be able to reply to him.

Pape, mentioned by the composer of the song and also by Sir Apirana Ngata in his comments on the song, was a popular name for Kakatarau. Our critic was an educated man and should have been familiar with the song.

The Toka-a-kuku fight was the last conflict between Ngati Porou and the Whanau-a-Apanui, who strangely enough were both descended from one common stock. The fight took place in 1836.

The composer of the song was an ancestress of Arnold Reedy of Ruatoria. Kakatarau was the writer's grand-uncle, elder brother of Mokena Kohere, his grandfather.

Kopu, the planet Venus, sometimes called Tawera.

Hikurangi, the highest mountain in the Ngati Porou territory—altitude 5,606 feet. According to Ngati Porou tradition Maui's canoe, Nukutaimemeha was stranded on Hikurangi, and is to be seen there today in the form of a rock upturned in a lake (pond).

Otiki, the hill at East Cape, on which today stands a lighthouse.

Tiakitai, a great Hawkes Bay chief, thus showing that the statement is correct that all chiefs from Wairarapa to Hicks Bay responded to Kakatarau's invitation to avenge the death of his father, Pakura, who was killed while storming Wharekura pa near Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty, in 1829.

Tukiterangi, an allusion now forgotten.

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During Easter the Maori Dictionary Revision Commission met at Gisborne and decided to reprint the Dictionary as it is, together with several hundred new Maori words which had been collected by Sir Apirana Ngata, Elsdon Best and other earlier authorities on the Maori language. The Maori Dictionary was last revised in 1917, and a straight-out reprint of that edition was made in 1932.

The committee hopes to have the new revised edition in the hands of the Government Printer by the end of this year.

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The successful candidates in Maori Studies I in last November's degree examinations were: T. J. Calvert, D. L. Chapple, Arapera H. Kaa, R. H. Koroheke, W. Tawhai and D. M. Rikihana, all of Auckland University College; and Horowai Ngarimu, who was a student at the Wellington Teachers' Training College and took the university subject extramurally.

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The Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls in Auckland last year achieved a hundred per cent pass in the University Entrance examination. All four girls in the sixth form sat and passed the examination. Three of these girls are this year students at the Auckland Teachers' Training College. They are Toi Te Rito, of Masterton, Alice Angell, of Cape Runaway, and Grace Henare, of Motatau. The fourth girl, Zena Reid, of Mangonui, is waiting for a vacancy to train as a bacteriologist.