but waistlines and other raw edges should be either bound with fine cotton or silk material or oversewn by hand. Raw edges would soon fray with the repeated washing that is necessary to keep babies' clothes clean. Buttonholing, feather stitching or scolloping round the neck and sleeves gives an attractive finish to hand sewn clothes. Proud will be the mother who has worked hard to make some pretty and practical clothes for her new baby. *If there is no Plunket Nurse nearby from whom to buy these baby patterns it is suggested that the Public Health Nurse be asked if she could help to obtain them. Miss Nita Ropata, aged 20, is belived to be the first blind New Zealander to become skilled at working a sewing machine. She learnt at the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland, and she uses an ordinary sewing machine which has had one or two small adjustments to provide protection for her fingers. Miss Roparta has so far been using the machine for only a short time, but she has already developed remarkable skill.

ERANA MURIWAI by Roberta Cook Mrs Erana Muriwai of the Ngahengahe subtribe of the Ngapuhi tribe, died at Maraeroa, near Horeke, Northland, recently. Mrs Muriwai, who was 110, was born at Rawene five years after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. All her life she had lived on the shores of the Hokianga Harbour. It was in January, 1954, that Mrs Muriwai was presented to the Queen at the Rotorua aerodrome. She regarded this meeting as the highlight of her long life. She had been sitting for two hours and was dressed in black for the occasion. Mrs Muriwai had seen the Queen for only a moment in Northland and had made the long journey to Rotorua so she could see her again, staying with her daughter Mrs G. Yates. She did not expect to meet the Queen personally and did not know until a few minutes before the Queen's arrival, when she was told by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland), that the Queen would speak to her. Mrs Muriwai said after meeting the Queen for a few moments: “I did not say much to her but I said how proud I was to meet our Queen Victoria's great-great-granddaughter.”