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No. 58 (March 1967)
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A Chinese-Maori Girl

sun smooths hair
black as a midnight pool,
and dusts gold
on satin skin,
and gives glow
to nephrite-amber eyes,

while the poised note
of the bone flute
and the tune of the two-stringed lute
are fluidly caught
in the grace of her limbs.

child, beauty has sprung
in you her newest race,
meet inheritors
of a yet time-green land.

—Bernard Gadd

New Ratana Church President

Mrs Te Reo Hura of Patea was elected president of the Ratana Church movement at its annual synod in January. Mrs Hura, a daughter of the late T. W. Ratana, founder of the movement, has a vast knowledge and personal experience of the events leading up to the formation of the movement.

Mr H. K. Edmonds of Auckland was reaffirmed as vice-president of the church.

Queen Te Atairangikaahu and many Waikato people attended the celebrations, indicating a desire for increasing co-operation between the two groups in the future.