In His Youth.

Wahanui, then known as Reihana, received some education, religious and secular, from the Wesleyans. He was a pupil of the Rev. Alexander Reid, a missionary whose station was at Te Kopua, on the Waipa River, near the foot of Mount Kakepuku, and he was afterwards at the Three Kings College, Auckland, of which Mr. Reid was the principal after he left Te Kopua. There the Maori boys were instructed in farm work as part of the mission system, and the burly young Reihana could have been seen at the plough-handles breaking up the good volcanic soil for the wheat-sowing and the potato-planting, and in the harvest field and wielding the flail on the tarpaulin threshing floor. When he returned to the Ngati-Maniapoto territory—it was not yet known as the King Country—he was a leader in the wheat-growing and flour-milling activities of his industrious people; there were several mills in the Waipa country driven by water power.