One of the boots supplying Otakou Fisheries is the oyster dredger Ariel (Otago Daily Times Photograph). Back from the sea: Messrs Taiamoa and Russell on board M.V. Foam, another boat supplying Otakou Fisheries. (Photo; N. M. Beaumont) Maori men with work near their homes, so they would not all have to travel to Dunedin. These were the foundations of Otakou Fisheries which last year had a turnover of close to one million pounds. The whole enterprise was like a businessman's dream, except that those who dream about large sums of money do not usually get them. When Mr Ellison describes how it all happened it sounds like a series of phenomenally lucky breaks, all of them quite unexpected. Yet such a long list of lucky accidents is rather unlikely, to say the least. Mr Ellison produces an almost constant plan of brainwaves. In the company as it is now, he has a good number of able and systematic executives indispensable to the success of the enterprise, but he stands slightly aloof as the artist who plays with financial combinations, thinks up new ways of processing and selling fish, or the many other products in which he is interested. It is very strange to think only ten years ago he was totally ignorant of the world of business and finance. Stranger still is how little he personally has become infected with the affections and the