Tāngata:
Henare Te Ua (kaiwhakataki kōrero/presenter)
Napi Waaka (kaikawe kōrero/presenter)
Haare Williams (kaikōrero/speaker)
Boy Mangu (kaikōrero/speaker)
Pare Tamihana (kaikōrero/speaker)
Carlos Tuuta (kaikōrero/speaker)
1940 – Kirikiriroa Methodist group
Wāhi: Tāmaki Makaurau, Papatoetoe, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Wharekauri, Rēkohu, Kirikiriroa
Pitopito kōrero:
He pāho mataora nā Te Reo o Aotearoa mō Te Wiki o te Reo Māori i te tau 1981. Ka rangona ngā mihimihi, karakia, whaikōrero, hīmene/waiata, me ngā whitiwhitinga whakaaro.
Ko ngā waiata hei kīnaki ko:
● Tama ngākau marie
● Arohaina mai, nā Tuini Ngāwai
● E tangi ana te reo tuku iho
● He aha kei taku uma?
● Haere mai e ngā iwi
● I ngā rā o mua, nā Dovey Kātene
● Ka eke wīwī, ka eke wāwā, e waiatatia ana e te rōpū o Rēkohu
● Tēnei hoki au e Ihu.
Ka whakamārama a Napi Waaka i te waiata ‘Arohaina mai’, me tana pānga ki te pakanga mō te reo Māori.
Ka puta mai ngā kōrero i te minenga mō te ako i te reo Māori i ngā kura, arā ko ngā painga me ngā ngoikoretanga. E aronui rawa ana pea ki te tuhituhi.
Ka kōrerohia te wā i haere ai rātou ki te kura. Kāre rawa i whakaaetia te kōrero Māori, kei pākia rātou e ngā kura māhita.
Ka kōrerohia ngā āhuatanga o te tīma whutupōro o Āwherika ki te Tonga me te pōwhiri i a rātou ki te marae o Te Poho o Rāwiri. Ko te tikanga ka pakanga rātou ki te tīma o Waikato ki Kirikiriroa, engari i whakakorea taua kēmu.
Kei tēnei hui hoki ko Te Oraiti Calcott o Ngāti Porou rāua ko Tūtata Matatahi o Waikato.