Two houses built in Raetihi by the Department of Maori Affairs under its mortgage scheme. is no doubt that community co-operation and interest is essential to the success of any rehousing scheme. The tribal executive naturally regrets greatly that there has been so much complaint about the housing conditions in part of Ohakune, which is within its area. In any market gardening area, there are a lot of people from other districts and other tribes. It takes much time and effort for a tribal committee to weld the community really together, and it also takes time for people from other districts to really feel that the place where they settle is their new home, and not just temporary. The first house for these new settlers in Ohakune is being built at present and this again will develop the social outlook. People in Ohakune who need houses can help themselves by starting to save towards sections and cost of building. Quite a number of homes were built apart from those listed in the committee's survey. Each of the occupants was faced with the need to remodel his life in some way to cope with the new conditions. For instance, the men needed permanent jobs. This meant giving up the more or less casual work at the market gardens and finding regular employment with the railways or works departments. This demanded much more regularity and in many cases unfortunately long absences from home, for regular jobs right in Raetihi or Ohakune are not so easy to get. Here the committee's help must have been valuable, in helping the people to change their old outlook. Mrs Edna Chadwick. Mrs Harriet Blackburn and Mrs Jean Rerekura did the actual welfare work of the committee. They helped in some child welfare and truancy cases. The two former of these women are on the parent teachers' association committee. They organise some of the meetings and are always looking for guest speakers who can bring something of Maori interest. They also organise a Maori entertainment evening once a year. In this way they encourage Maori interest in this worthwhile movement. Mr and Mrs Arahanga give much practical help to the child welfare officers by looking after boys or girls until a permanent home is found for them. Mrs Chadwick has represented her people on the local Crippled Children's Society. What kind of work does that involve? To give an instance she encouraged the parents of a 5-year-old boy to send their child to hospital to have his leg attended to; the boy was crippled. Mrs Chadwick is also secretary of the M.W.W.L. branch. What does it all add up to? That is what the journalists ask and the politicians and all the outsiders. It means a great deal in human warmth and human dignity. These social workers set up ideals in the community, ideals that are not always achieved, but against which behaviour is measured. Undoubtedly the nation wide committees and organisations of the last few years have been an encouragement to these people. So have the housing loans and the marae subsidies, but they were never more than part of the story.