There is both a serious and fun side to the career of Dr Anthony Ansley Ruakere, better known as Dr Tony Ruakere. There's the hitch-hiking trips he made from Taranaki to Dunedin to attend Medical school, there is the 'Rolls Royce' days when he ran his own practise in Opunake, and the years he spent running the Te Atiawa Medical Centre with several thousand patients on their files. Now in his seventies, Dr Ruakere is well retired, he recalls his time growing up at Puniho Pa as one of thirteen kids, and a few of his career highlights.