CROSSWORD
PUZZLE NO. 18

ACROSS

1.	This place name may mean the same as 21 down
8.	Confused
12.	Worn by women on ceremony
13.	Educate
14.	To squeeze
15.	The Arawas would say Kare
16.	Working-bee
17.	Coldness
18.	Namely
20.	Compensated
21.	Print
22.	Tukutuku pattern
24.	Adjective (pl.)
26.	Dumb
27.	Communicate
28.	Mountain peak
31.	It personifies light (myth.)
32.	To strike
33.	A famous marae
37.	Gather
38.	To shake
39.	Dispersal
42.	Heart-wood of a tree
43.	Him (East-coast dialect)

DOWN

1.	With Ake it would mean soon
2.	Carriage
3.	Ford Motors excels in this line
4.	Clash
5.	A celebrated lover used one of these (abbr.)
6.	Veil
7.	When
8.	A small moth.
9.	Te Rauparaha married her
10.	Possessive Pronoun
11.	The circumstances of drawing out
15.	To cut repeatedly
19.	This conveys a certain tree afire (2 words)
21.	An early missionary site named after a celebrated mat
23.	Sand
25.	Form of negation (abbr.)
27.	Shelter
29.	A nuisance
30.	Strangle
31.	Procrastinate
34.	Prop
35.	There
36.	Rubbish
40.	Inquire
41.	Introduces a story

It is expected that a boarding hostel for about 60 primary and secondary girl pupils and young Maori women in New Plymouth will be completed next year. Built by the Methodist Church with a government subsidy, it will be the largest Maori hostel in existence.

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A scheme for drainage of the Whakaki lands, near Wairoa, was worked out recently, with Maori land owners lending the money (£5,000) for the work to proceed. The scheme affects Whakaki village and the flat lands surrounding it.

Miss Phyllis Rudolph of Towai, Northland, left New Zealand last March to become a Methodist missionary teacher in the Solomon Islands. Her engagement is for four years.

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Major Reiwhatu Vercoe, speaking at the graveside of the late Padre Henare Wepiha Wainohu, told that at Gallipoli he saw the padre polishing a revolver. ‘That is not your weapon, padre.’ he said. The padre looked up and replied: ‘Now I am a Maori first and a parson afterwards.’