While some people wanted Maori taught in schools, many felt that the language could survive only if it was learned and spoken in the home. As the language was still spoken well by more than half the people surveyed, there was not the same fear in Onepu, as in other communities, that the language may be lost."
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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