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No. 9 (Spring 1954)
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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICE
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ana te tau ka pau te haere. Ko etahi anake o nga Kura nunui rawa e tuaruatia ana i te tau.

Ko tetahi mea Whakamiharo i au i roto i nga tau e rima ka huri ake nei ko te kaha o te whakauru haere o nga tamariki Maori ki nga Kura Teitei o te pakeha. Kei etahi o ene kura nui atu nga Maori i nga pakeha, he nu tonu hoki aua kura he Maori nga tamarik tumuaki (Head Prefects) ko etahi na te matauranga tonu, ko etahi na te toa ki te pure hutupaoro.

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The four young Maori entertainers known a ‘The New Zealanders' Quartet’, now in England, recently made a two months' tour o American Army camps and Air Force station in Europe. At all bases the Maoris found that American servicemen were keen to hear about New Zealand and Maori legends.

The members of the quartet—Joe Ward Holmes, of Lower Hutt, Pat Rawiri, of Ruatahuna, Mac Hata, of Opotiki, and Henry Gilbert, of Waikaremoana—have sung on many B.B.C. programmes and given cabaret and stage shows in England. They were also in the film ‘The Seekers’.