In the News

The Te Ao Hou cup for the best-kept Maori home garden in Hauraki went to Mrs J. F. Martin, Whitianga in December last year. This was the first time that the cup, donated by Mr and Mrs Stanley Wyborn, has been competed for. The judge, Mr H. O. McWalker, Field Supervisor, Pareoa, was impressed with the excellent standard of all entries. Unusual feature of the winner's garden was a hangi, complete with stones, on the lawn.

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The outstanding young Maori tennis player. Miss Ruia Morrison, of Rotorua, who is a student teacher in Auckland now, has been selected by the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association's management committee as one of a team to tour Australia next October and November

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The Rev J. T. Tamahori and Mrs Tamahori have returned to Tonga after spending most of their three months' furlough in Rotorua. Mr Tamahori is a former vicar of St Faiths Church, Chinemutu, and he is now the head of the Anglican Mission and principal of the Anglican school in Tonga. At the school he has a staff of 12 Tongans and two pakehas, and there are 417 pupils. Mrs Tamahori is also a teacher there. The school, called St Andrew's, takes children through from Primary school to the Tongan Higher Leaving Certificate. Mr Tamahori said he found it easy enough reading the church services in Tongan, but it was about 18 months before he felt he could preach in that language.