The Community Hall.

The ancient community life, however, will remain, in part. The tribal meeting houses and the marae are necessary features of the social organisations, and the arts of wood-carving and (in the Waikato, in particular) canoe-making will not be allowed to fade out.

I called at one of the Horohoro settlements a few months ago, in the course of a cruise through the country between Rotorua and Taupo. I thought the arrangement of the kainga was excellent. It was Sunday afternoon, and most of the people were gathered at the meeting-hall, built in part-Maori style. There had been a church service in the morning, and the Maori clergyman was there, sitting in front of the big house, watching the young fellows playing tennis on the hard court. “A spot of church, a spot of tennis, and plenty of korero” was one young farmer's pakeha-Maori summing up of the social gathering. Presently they would be off to the milking machine, for the golden cow is she-who-must-be-obeyed.