Above: Mr Rani Ellison at his Dunedin desk. Below: Crayfish tails, ready in bags, are loaded off the fishing vessel. (Photos: N. M. Beaumontit) hunger for money that so often accompanies financial success. Through it all he has remained slightly hesitant and humble; his relationship to the other people of Otakou has not, one imagines, changed at all. He is one of the iwi at weddings. An important visit to America, his first trip to that part of the world was put off for several months, because he did not want to be away when his baby was born. The fact that several hundred thousand pounds of business were involved did not make any difference to that. The small amount originally put into the business by the Otakou people has grown to huge assets. The value of all the original shares has been raised as the business grew. Everyone profited equally. He feels himself as a trustee and representative of his own people. If he had been struggling merely for himself, he would now perhaps be a harder man, he could no longer genuinely feel his equality and kinship with most other people, his achievements would have separated him. But because the link with his people was not broken, he showed that the highest financial success can be achieved without the loss of the qualities the Maori sums up in the word “aroha.” When the first barracouta was being processed, Mr Ellison made a deal with a Dunedin firm selling his total output for about a year. The Dunedin firm did so because of a small temporary