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Ms Hooper is the Regional Co-ordinator and ensures community groups get volunteers they need to support their service and that volunteers are suitably matched to an organisation. Ms Hooper has worked in migrant and refugee communities since 2003 with A_141010NZHBPCMGAMES471 New Zealand Red Cross and GOING FOR THREEPEAT: Can Laura Langman and the Silver Ferns repeat their success of the last two Commonwealth Games in New Delhi Hamilton Multicultural Services (2010, pictured) and Melbourne (2006)? Trust. The 2014 Commonwealth Cycling, lawn bowls, squash, sprint team, the Silver Ferns, Equestrian Games kick off on July 23 in rugby sevens and netball are runner Nick Willis, shot putter Glasgow, Scotland. among those back on the pro- Tom Walsh, swimmer Lauren It will be the largest multi- gramme for Glasgow while ten- Boyle, the women’s Black Sticks, games team sport event ever held in the nis and archery have been bowler Jo Edwards, squash Equestrian Sports New country, although the country replaced by triathlon, including player Joelle King and triathlete Zealand has named an previously hosted the 1970 and the new teams event, and judo. Andrea Hewitt. impressive eventing line-up for 1986 Commonwealth Games in It’s not every day we get to Te Awamutu is supplying the Alltech FEI World Edinburgh. witness our finest athletes don eight of the athletes set to com- Equestrian Games in France The Commonwealth Games the national colours and test pete in the XX Commonwealth next month. movement began 84 years ago in themselves against the best in Games (see details pages 8-9). New Zealand’s most Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. the Commonwealth. For viewers Sky Sport will capped eventers Andrew Back in 1930, there were 11 New Zealand has a 232-strong provide extensive coverage, Nicholson and Sir Mark Todd countries (including New Zea- team this year and there is the including six channels of action, spearhead a four-strong team land) contesting six sports and 59 expectation that the team will at as well as news and daily that also includes Tim Price events. least match the Delhi return of 36 highlights. and Jock Paget. 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Some are pushing for the Kura kaupapa Maori August 15 is 5 per cent since 2006. As of July last year, more Efforts to preserve the lan- language to be made compulsory in than 17,340 students were Whitebait Season! guage have seen the growth of enrolled in Maori language Are your nets ready? language immersion schools schools, while others lament we need to immersion schools, a number We have all the gear for a good repair around the country and other that has grown from about 16,800 initiatives such as Maori Tele- push it at all. Cassandra Mason takes a five years earlier. vision. While New Zealand already But while te reo is now a look back at Te Reo Maori and the has 93 kura schools and 500 odd widely-accepted part of New Maori language preschools, the Zealand culture, the slide in challenges it faces. Labour Party recently indicated usage is cause for concern. it planned to make te reo com- ... population, reaching a crisis to revive the language haven’t pulsory in every school. 166 Cambridge Rd, Te Awamutu Ph: 871 6793 point in the 1970s when the been as rewarding as envisaged, Initially downplayed as an Evolution of Te Reo number of speakers dwindled so the act has had its successes, not “aspiration”, Labour Maori Once the main source of drastically many feared te reo only achieving wide acceptance affairs spokeswoman Nanaia communication in Aotearoa, Te was facing extinction — thus of te reo as an official language, Mahuta was more direct during Reo Maori was widely spoken in giving rise to a push for but also the establishment of a debate held in Gisborne earlier the 18th and 19th centuries. revitalisation. hundreds of Maori language this month, saying: “We’ve Protection for the language Initiatives to bolster te reo schools. made a clear commitment that Never return to a cold home again as taonga was agreed under the included Te Ataarangi (a lan- He says an increasing num- te reo Maori will be compulsory Treaty of Waitangi but never guage learning system), ber of non-Maori are also want- in our schools.” honoured until being made an kohanga reo (Maori language ing to learn te reo. official language in 1987. pre-schools), kura kaupapa A partnership In the years between, the Maori (Maori language schools) The challenges Tuhourangi kaumatua harsh enforcement of English in and Maori broadcasting. Mr Paraone says the growth Anaru Rangiheuea says we schools and the belief the col- The Maori Language Act was of te reo still faces some sig- should never have got to the onial tongue would yield more passed in 1987, acknowledging nificant barriers, including a point where support has to be wealth and opportunity saw the the Crown’s responsibility to shortage of qualified teachers “drummed up” to include te reo use of Maori slip. protect te reo and declaring it an and threats to linguistic quality. in schools. “Years ago it According to the Maori Lan- official language of New Zea- Changes to grammar and should’ve been automatic, a guage Commission, the land. vocabulary have engendered a partnership — Maori and migration of rural Maori to The legislation also intro- modern version of te reo Maori Pakeha living together. I speak urban centres from the 1940s to duced the right to speak Maori far removed from the vernacu- your language then you should the 1970s diluted te reo further during some legal proceedings lar of the elders. speak and understand mine.” and many parents stopped and established the Maori Lan- “As a comparison between But the sole use of English in speaking it to their children guage Commission. Maori and English — if I was to schools over time has made that altogether. However, official recognition ask you if you were a fluent impossible. “There’s not too RequiresRReqReequiresuireuirrees a Mitsubishi Electric Wi-Fi Adaptor These factors, combined with hasn’t pushed te reo into the speaker of English, you would many us who are fluent in Te policies that invariably fav- mainstream. say yes, but if I were to ask you if Reo.” However, he says the oured English as the dominant ... you were a speaker of English in emergence of kapa haka compe- 166 Cambridge Road language, caused a huge lan- Commission chief executive the sense of William Shake- titions is bringing te reo back to Te Awamutu, Ph 871 6793 REFRIGERATION guage loss within the Maori Pita Paraone says while efforts speare then you’d have to think young people.