Contents

Volume One : Number Three

		Page
The Place of Maori Poetry		1
Introduction to Maori Poetry	Sir Apirana Ngata	2
Die Pelzenaffen	Charles Spear	7
The Blind	Short Story. Helen Shaw	8
Legend	Cherry Lockett	13
Prayer for a Wanderer	Cherry Lockett	14
On a Verandah	J. R. Hervey	15
A Harvest Shaken	Hubert Witheford	15
Here on a Shipwreck	Hubert Witheford	16
Six Sonnets Unpleasant	Louis Johnson	16
I Want to Torpedo You	Short Story. Erik Schwimmer	19
Elegy 1944	James K. Baxter	20
Blake on War and Hunting	Pat Wilson	22
I am the Dark	The Poetry of Ursula Bethell. Helen Shaw	25
Happiness to Mrs Flanagan	Short Story. Lily H. Trowern	31

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