Some children from Whakatane are attending the bilingual school at Ruatoki at great inconvenience to themselves and their parents. Developments such as this indicate that there is a determination on the part of many Maori people in the Whakatane area to reverse the trends towards the loss of the Māori language, so evident when our survey took place.
Source: Read the full NZCER report here
Te Moana-ā-Toi | Bay of Plenty | Whakatāne | 1970-79 | Story is by tangata whenua
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