PEOPLE AND PLACES Mr Te W. T. Morete (see photo at right), the first Maori to qualify in dentistry, recently retired from the position of principal dental officer with the Department of Health, Dunedin. Mr Morete was born in 1902 at Kakariki near Ruatoria, one of a family of thirteen children. His mother was Ere Takina of Ngati Kanohi and his father, a dairy farmer, was Rapata Pahoe Morete of Whanau-a-Rakai subtribe. After attending Waiomatatini Maori School and Te Aute College, Mr Morete entered the University of Otago dental school in 1924. After qualifying in 1928 he joined the Department of Health and was posted to Tikitiki, Ruatoria and Te Araroa to start a school dental service there. In 1939 he was transferred to Rotorua and in 1945 to Gisborne. In 1950 he was posted to Dunedin as principal dental officer. Mr Morete retires from his profession enjoying the respect and warm affection of the very many people, Maori and Pakeha, amongst whom he has worked in the course of his career. He is also highly regarded as a participant and administrator in sport, having taken a prominent part in rugby activities in many parts of the country. The Reverend Hemi Potatau (see photo lower right), is the first Maori Presbyterian Minister to become Moderator of the Maori Synod. After attending Otago University and Knox College, Dunedin, Mr Potatau was appointed to te Maori mission field as Assistant Minister at Taupo in 1933. Since then he has been minister at Te Whaiti, Taumarunui and Opotiki. For five years Mr Potatau served overseas with the Maori Battalion during the second world war. The group of people in the photograph on the opposite page are students this year at the University of Auckland; six of them are of Maori ancestry and one is Rarotongan. They are among the 65 who are enrolled, 39 of them full-time students, 21 part-time and five of them graduates studying for higher qualifications. In addition there are about 75 Maoris at the three Teachers' Colleges in the Auckland area. Because three or four of the student