The film of RUATOKI Photographed by Charles Hale Written by E. Schwimmer At the verandah corner, quite alone, was the infant mistress. She was not looking at us, she was waiting for her children who were running towards her from the school garden, twigs with green leaves waving above their heads. They ran up the steps, a little out of breath, and crowded round to be the first to hand the mistress their own twig. Soon she had them all, a big bundle, held against her with both arms. And the children were happy. The camerman's equipment caused a good deal of curiosity at Tauarau Pa, Ruatoki. This is what they call ‘activity training’ and as part of the ‘modern education’, all infant mistresses do it, or something like it, even in the distant backblocks of Ruatoki (the Ruatoki Maori District High School) where we were. First it is leaves the children are taught to gather together; later it will be knowledge. Principal actor was Rev. Wharetini Rangi, the Anglican Pastor at Ruatoki. After only one afternoon's practice, he very convincingly played the part of a chief telling his people the importance of education in a modern age. The film men thought he had a great screen personality. He gained a pretty good idea of film acting and was sorry his cinema career had not started a little earlier in life. In their concern with the leaves the children hardly noticed the unusual and very prominent invasion the school was suffering. There was not only Te Ao Hou visiting the school but also the Pacific Film Company, to make a film about Maori education; that meant that Wellington characters were strolling all over the lawns, a camera man shooting one of the Maori mistresses and her class on one end of the school grounds while a photographer was at work in the third form mathematics class. Another strange identity was