I am all in favour of Maori Language Week to try to preserve this historic language. However, how about an English language week.Why? Because many of our children leave school unable to speak, write, spell and read the English language properly and this is the main language in NZ. This becomes very obvious when you read applications for jobs, listen to the dreadful English announcers on TV and radio use and read the shockingly mis-spelt and badly punctuated English in our newspapers.
We should also have annual Chinese and Pacific Island language weeks otherwise Maori language week becomes just another sop to the racist radicals in NZ. If we are to ever become 'one nation one people” we have to give equal opportunities in everything to all of the major nationalities who make up the New Zealand people.
Roger Bailey, Papamoa.
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so true
Posted on 06-07-2013 13:46 | By [email protected]
All week we have had Maori language week, What we should also have now is Celtic langauage week where we are taught to speak Gaelic the langauage of the indigenous people of New Zealand Ian Brougham Wanganui
Hush your mouth R Bailey
Posted on 06-07-2013 16:30 | By crazyhorse
Be careful, look what Gary Cody did to that poor woman for complaining about his company using Kia Ora, you will be reported to the human rights commissioner, or maybe worse,you will be locked in a small room and be made to read (damage) Oranges the treaty of Waitangi (her version)from cover to cover, you will never be the same again!! be afraid be very afraid, this is how pathetic NZ has become.
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