English seems to have displaced Maori as the language used between parents and children in many central and southern Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa communities a generation or more earlier than in many northern North Island regions. Taken as a whole, Napier and Bay View were among the most English-dominated areas in the North Island. Even within the Maori community, Napier was very much an English-speaking city at the time of the survey. This partly reflected the linguistic history of Hawkes Bay as a whole.
Source: https://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/Information%20Bulletin%20142.pdf
Te Matau-a-Māui | Hawke’s Bay | Napier City | 1970-79 | 5% of Māori children can speak te reo. (1970-75) | Story is by tangata whenua
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