Speaking Maori
Sir,—ln reply to Charles Wilson (August 14): not having seen the “Eye Witness” programme I- do not know what period/Mrs ;Ti-„ rikatehO-Sulli-vhri referred to; but until ' the early thirties - it was departmental policy to prohibit any use of Maori on school premises. Of course this was enforced with the usual discipline. The theory was that .if the/, children were allowed to speak Maori they would’ never/learn English properly.' Some schools may have dodged '(the rule;, others may have carried .ij: on longer, but I am a personal witness to the, practice at Waiuku in - the ;192Qs/ When a child’s sense of fair? ness is outraged the rriemo'ry tends, to stick, and I have a. strong mental picture-,of two girls being taken Worn. the. playground, and -strapped for: calling to each' other in Maori during an' excitinggame of prisoners base.—Yours, etc. ELSIE LOCKE. August 14, 1980.
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