pn783. The Good News from Ōtaki, a town on the Kāpiti Coast

Tainui

I was fascinated by Tainui Stephens' description of Ōtaki published in e Tangata.  How different things are now from the Ōtaki I remember in the late 1960s when I taught at  Ōtaki College. 

Tainui writes,   

 "The most recent statistics show that 50 percent of the town’s Māori population and 13 percent of the total Ōtaki population of around 6,000 people are able to use the language. Nationally, 20 percent of the Māori population, and 3 percent of the general population speak Māori."