Restoring Te Reo Maori Means Listening to Our Youth. Brown, H. New Zealand Physical Educator, 45(3):23, 2012.
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In the 1890s some two hundred Maori leaders petitioned Parliament to ban Te Reo Maori from schools (Ewing and Shallcrass, 1970, p. 30). This was reluctantly agreed to by Members of Parliament despite protestations from many Pakeha educators at the time. For the following three decades strong Maori representations, from outstanding Maori assimilist leader such as F.A. Bennett and the MPs James Carroll, Maui Pomare, Peter Buck and Apirana Ngata, kept the pressure on the Department of Education to prevent them recanting the wishes of Maoridom (Webster, 1998). Infact Ngata was so vociferous on the matter that he was famously quoted as saying, "that if he had to devise a curricula for native schools he would make four out of five subjects English" (Walker, 2001, p. 221).
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	abstract = {In the 1890s some two hundred Maori leaders petitioned Parliament to ban Te Reo Maori from schools (Ewing and Shallcrass, 1970, p. 30). This was reluctantly agreed to by Members of Parliament despite protestations from many Pakeha educators at the time. For the following three decades strong Maori representations, from outstanding Maori assimilist leader such as F.A. Bennett and the MPs James Carroll, Maui Pomare, Peter Buck and Apirana Ngata, kept the pressure on the Department of Education to prevent them recanting the wishes of Maoridom (Webster, 1998). Infact Ngata was so vociferous on the matter that he was famously quoted as saying, "that if he had to devise a curricula for native schools he would make four out of five subjects English" (Walker, 2001, p. 221).},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2016-02-05},
	journal = {New Zealand Physical Educator},
	author = {Brown, Harko},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {23},
}

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