Maori was the first language spoken by about half the people interviewed. However, several people commented that because of the punishment they received at school for speaking Maori, they lost their knowledge of it. Most of the people who had this experience were sorry they had lost their Maori language and one of them spoke about how keen she was for her son to go to a Maori boy's college so he could learn to speak Maori.
Te Moana-ā-Toi | Bay of Plenty | Whakatāne | 1970-79 | Story is by tangata whenua
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