of a stock that had occupied the Poverty Bay-East Coast for some generations before Kahungunu and his sister arrived in the district. He was an expert at canoe-building. His wife asked him to patch or put in a ‘haumi’ for his brother-in-law's canoe on the beach near Nuhaka, and it was there that his wife gave birth to Mahaki (called Mahaki-ewe-karoro, whose navel had been pecked by the seagull) a Ngati-Porou ancestor. He returned to Tolaga Bay and there set up the famous Te Rawheoro Whare Wananga referred to by Elsdon Best in his monograph on “The Maori School of Learning” (p. 24). I quote now from Rangiuia's lament for his son Tuterangi-Wahitiri, makutued by the famous Matorohanga:— Ko Te Rangi-hopukia, ko Hinehuhuritai, Me ko Manutangirua, ko Hingangaroa. Ka tu tona Whare, Te Rawheoro, e; Ka tipu te Whaihanga, e hika, ki Uawa. Ka riro to whakautu, te Ngaio-tu-ki-Rarotonga, Ka riro to manaia, ka riro te taowaru; Ka taka ki raro na, i a Apanui, e; Ka puta ki Turanga, ka hangai atu koe; Kia whakarongo mai e to tipuna papa, E Te Matorohanga, na i! The first part of the verse from which this is quoted traces the line of descent from Tangaroa to the Rua family, connected in Maori lore with the art of carving. Rua-te-pupuke, Rua-te-kuka-kore, Rua-te-pare-kore, Rua-te-atamai—meaning Rua—the well of thought, Rua—without waste chips, Rua—without dust, Rua—the beautiful. The descent is traced to Te Aomarama who married Te Awhenga a daughter of Koraahi, and one of the ladies in Taiatea with whom the amorous Turi of the Aotea canoe had dallied. Te Aomarama's great grand-daughter Hinehuhuritai married Rakaipo, eldest grandson of Porourangi who lived at Whangara near Gisborne. Hingangaroa the priest and artist of Tolaga Bay was a grandson of Hinehuhuritai by Rakaipo. The following is a rough English version of the lament quoted:— Te Rangihopikia had Hinehuhuritai, Who had Manutangirua, whose son was Hingangaroa. He it was who established the house, Te Rawheoro, And arts and crafts flourished, my son, at Uawa, There came in payment the Ngaio-tu-ki-Rarotonga, And there went in exchange the Manaia and the Taowaru. Passing round thence to the north, Te Apanui, Carved poupou or wall supports in the Te Kuiti carved house Tokanganui a Noho, built by the followers of Te Kooti in the 1870's. One famous carver working on this house was Wiremu Kaimoana of Ngati Kahungunu. (Dominion Museum Photo)