Te Reo o Te Kanawa

Te Ao Hou, September 1965, Page 23

Te Reo o Te Kanawa When the Governor-General opened the University of Waikato, na tana wero: ‘This is the first New Zealand University to be planted right here in the heart of traditionally Maori country. I would like to see set high among the ambitions of this university a resolve to establish a Maori faculty. I have always thought it was tragic, even scandalous perhaps would not be too strong a word, that Sir Peter Buck, Te Rangihiroa, had to go to Hawaii for the pursuit of his Polynesian studies. Surely here is a proper centre for a Maori university within a university. I do not mean separate, but part of the whole, for Maori and European alike, to kindle a new appetite among both, for the study of Maori culture, anthropology, psychology, language and the rest—for the study of each other too. ‘And even more important, this faculty should be a bright new dynamo for Maori education generally.’ He tao rakau ka taea te karo He tao kupu kore rawa.