Two Wellington women took top honours in this year's Souvenir Design Awards, after the judging of more than 150 entries..

NAC Air Hostess Miss Barbara Bennett, models Section B's winning entry, a knitted trouser suit featuring a Maori motif trim, made by Mrs Janice Hopper. BELOW: Miss Jill Studd won Section A with this design of a Maori rag doll. Section A was for new designs, and Section B for designs already in production
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Road Traffic Instructors from Waikato, King Country, Bay of Plenty and Palmerston North who attended a three-day ‘in-service’ course on ‘Understanding the Maori’ pose outside the Mataatua Marae meeting-house where the course was centred. Back row, from left, Messrs R. Clements, Whakatane, G. Eccles, Te Puke, W. Fischer, Hamilton, J. Raffan, Matamata, P. Nightingale, Taupo. Second row: M. Rhys, Paeroa, R. Emmett, Auckland, J. Monk, Te Kuiti, D. Shaw, Auckland, Constable R. Hope, Rotorua. Front row: W. Simeon, Palmerston North, R. Doggett, Tauranga, the Assistant Superintendent of Traffic Instruction, Mr M. Hally, Wellington, Miss P. Thompson, Hamilton, C. J. Heaven, Hamilton, W. Kaua, Rotorua.

Road traffic instructors try their hand at Maori art at Rotokawa school during the course. From left are Messrs D. Shaw, Auckland, G. Eccles, Te Puke, and Constable R. Hope, Rotorua Police. In the right foreground is R. Clements, Whakatane.

The instructors take part in a primer lesson on road safety at Westbrook school, Rotorua, in Mrs Beverley Anaru's classroom. From left are, Mr M. Hally, Assistant Superintendent of Traffic Instruction, Wellington, Mr W. Kaua, Rotorua, with Patrick Nahu, Mr R. Clements, Whakatane, and Mr R. Doggett, Tauranga.
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The pupils at Rotokawa School turned their swimming pool into a minature town with its own roads and traffic officers. Watched by their headmaster, Mr Peter Anaru, right, the pupils demonstrate their knowledge of road traffic rules to the road traffic instructors.