Over 60 percent of the household heads interviewed had suffered some sort of punishment or general negative attitude for speaking Maori at school. At least one woman cited this as the reason why she and many others of her generation no longer speak Maori and pointed out that "consequently, neither do the following generations." It certainly seems likely that many parents would have been dissuaded from encouraging their own children to become fluent in Maori bearing in mind their own punishment at the hands of certain school teachers. Other adults had stopped using Maori or forgotten it altogether later on in life.
Te Tai Rāwhiti | Gisborne | Gisborne | 1970-79 | 5% of Māori children can speak te reo. (1970-75) | Story is by tangata whenua
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