There is an old but true saying: ‘You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink'.

I raise this because it this is Maori Language Week and the signs are not good.
For instance, news reports say despite millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on the teaching and promotion of the Maori language, yet the number of fluent speakers is declining.

This is because, I believe, Maori people in general aren't motivated to save the language.
Yet the activists among them expect the NZ Government to continue to spend and spend to save this ‘treasure'. which evidence shows Maori don't value.

The taxpayer order to the Government is: Stop flogging this dead horse.

K Evans,
Tauranga City.