One of the great chiefs of the early years of the century was Renata te Ua Numea Kereru, one of the paramount chiefs of Tuhoe and the paramount chief of Ngati Rongo. It was in his day and to a great extent due to his influence that farming started in Ruatoki, that the people took an interest in the cheese factory and in the school all established after 1900. Science is taught in the secondary department of the Ruatoki Maori District High School to fit students for the School Certificate examination. Tom Te Whetu has lost interest in many of his former worldly activities. We came to ask him about the new hall at Ngahina Pa. Tongaokioki which had been opened recently. He had been one of the principal helpers and told us the amusing story of many years of building effort and trouble with the building controller. But soon he asked us what we thought of the drink problem; he told us that to him nothing was of real importance now except religion and that no solution of human problems was possible except by submission to the divine. For the younger ones the play activities that are part of the school curriculum are particularly important as they learn to work together in an organized way.