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Story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

Waiwhetū bilingual unit

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Waiwhetū bilingual unit

Nan Bella teaches a class of tamariki (children) in the bilingual unit at Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt, in 1991. Classrooms that were bilingual in Māori and English were one of the early innovations to help revitalise te reo Māori.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1991/2155/3-F

by Mark Coote

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, Te reo Māori – the Māori language – Revitalising te reo, 1970s and 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41082/waiwhetu-bilingual-unit (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins rāua ko Basil Keane, published 13 March 2013, updated 1 September 2015.