Te Reo o Te Arawa - Bishop of Aotearoa, 50th Jubilee

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1978
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40422
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Audio
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Year
1978
Reference
40422
Media type
Audio
Duration
00:29:23
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
RNZ Collection
te Ua, Henare, 1933-2007, Announcer
Maruiti, John, Interviewee
Waaka, Te Kuru O Te Marama, 1915-1997, Interviewee
Riddell, Awi, Interviewee
Johnson, Bishop Alan (Primate od NZ)., Speaker/Kaikōrero
Te Aute College (Pukehou, N.Z.), Performer
Hukarere Māori Girls' College, Performer

00.00 - 01.29: Theme Music - Te Arawa E.
Hēnare Te Ua presents a special broadcast from Rotorua.

The relay run from Rotorua to Te Aute College is on this weekend. The College was the training ground for many prominent Māori men such as Sir Apirana Ngata, the late Sir Maui Pomare, and Sir Peter Buck. The director of the Institute of Māori Arts and Crafts at Whakarewarewa, Kuru Waaka, was a student at Te Aute College between the years of 1929 - 1930. He was asked if he could recall any of his contemporaries.

01.29 - 07.06: Kuru Waaka - Of note were his monitors, Sir Charles Bennett, Bill Parker. In 1930 when he was Form 4, students sat for 12 months with Bill Herewini. He is reminded of the types of physical attributes that were at Te Aute College, football being prominent. He recalls famous names such as Jack Ruru, Ted Ruru, Oliver Goldsmith, Jimmy Ray, and the Gemmell brothers, which come to his mind quite readily. There was cricket and tennis with Harold Merritt and Dave Durie. The other physical attribute was the use of the cane by the Masters. Corporal punishment was a part of everyday life. He imagined that Te Aute College was deeply steeped in the religion of the church, largely because it was a "church" school.

They had church first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. One became confirmed quite early in life and divinity was part of the school curriculum. With the chaplain, Canon Neil, it was essential to learn the Bible off by heart, especially the New Testament. All of this had a lasting effect on one's life. Archdeacon Ihaka mentioned that you would find when church attendance was taken notice of; the majority were Te Aute boys. If you spoke Māori in the classroom, you ended up in the Headmaster's office and you were thrashed for it. Although Māori was spoken in his own home as the only language (his father didn't know a word of English and his mother only said "yes" and "no") and he remained at school for ten months of the year only speaking English, he could happily speak his own language when he did return home. It is something that he regrets even now. It had a disturbing influence of retarding the use of Māori language today.

07.23 - 08.25: Te Aute College and Hukarere Girls' College recorded at Ohinemutu - "Hapaitia."

08.54 - 12.49: Awi Riddell (Principal of Te Aute). "It's the opposite today with Māori being a prominent subject taught not only in most secondary schools throughout New Zealand but also filtering down into the intermediate and primary schools." It is something, which Te Aute is trying hard to recapture. There have been many prominent students, for example Sir Charles Bennett, Manu Bennett, Dr Sidney Mead, Dr Peter Sharples, and Dr Mason Durie.

12.59 - 14.44: Te Aute College and Hukarere - "Pohiritia ra nga iwi haere mai."

The relay run starts from Whakarewarewa, the runners will overnight in Taupo; they will continue on Saturday, overnight in Bayview and should reach Te Aute at 2.00pm Sunday afternoon.

15.31 - 17.15: John Maruiti (Head boy at Te Aute). Comment.

17.22 - 18.28: Tony Scott, student. Comment.

18.35 - 21.03: Te Aute College perform classic haka "Kura Tiwaka."

Yesterday saw the start of the 50th Jubilee of the Bishop of Aotearoa. Dame Te Atairangikaahu and her party attended the special thanksgiving service and the service to inaugurate the new Bishopric of Aotearoa. Attending with the Dame was Archbishop Johnson, Archbishop of New Zealand.

22.05 - 24.11: Archbishop Johnson - speech.

24.15 - 26.27: Waiata tangi - "Takoto ana mai." The Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon was welcomed at Tama-te-kapua and the governor general Sir Keith Holyoake was accorded a welcome later on during the day.

27.09 - 29.23: Queen Victoria and St Stephens perform a poi composed by Sydney (Hirini) Melbourne, "Tihore mai te rangi."