looking at the little children on the playground who were organized around some skipping ropes. The lovely lawns and the rose garden, the mountain ranges in the background, the friendly look of the school were just what the film men were looking for. So they shot quite a number of scenes there; such as the pretty Maori school mistress talking to one of the parents, telling her that her daughter had made no progress at school because she had been kept home too often. After they finished talking the mother walked back to her car; the school mistress back to the school with always that lovely background of hills, lawn, roses. And they repeated it, and repeated it again, to get it just right, and for almost an hour you saw the mother walking in one, and the mistress in another direction on the school grounds. LEFT TOP: Most of Ruatoki's new homes are built by Mr Jack Hayes. As a building contractor, he also takes on jobs in the Whakatane Borough, but finds building faster under the labour contracts of the Department of Maori Affairs which is responsible for most of the building in Ruatoki. Under the department, he says, there is no danger of houses not being completed through lack of materials. In his experience, delay in Maori house construction is due to lack of labour. Unskilled men are available, but the standard of their work is not high enough. Mr Hayes began his building career as a working foreman of a departmental building gang. LEFT: Mr Waaka Rahi, the secretary of the Mahurehure tribal committee, is keenly interested in the beautiful new dining hall now being built at Rewarewa Pa (shown BELOW). This hall, on the only Ruatoki marae connected to electric power, will be an important social centre in the future. Even at its present cost of £6,000 it could not have been built but for the voluntary work by the farmers of the community. The little platform in front represents the remains of the little hall that was there before. It dated from 1929 and was in memory of the soldiers of the first world war; the new hall, with the Anzac emblem on the roof, commemorates both wars.