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Kōrero: Māori radio – reo irirangi

Ko Kīngi Tāhiwi

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E tū ana a Kīngi Tāhiwi ki muri i te tukuoro ki waho atu i te taiwhanga a 2ZB ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Kei tōna taha ētahi tāngata mau pūweru rerekē. Nō te pakarutanga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao ka tū ia hei āpiha rere. Nō te 6 o Hongongoi i te tau 1942 ka hopukina tēnei ororongo āna. I mate tana tama i te pakanga i ngā rangi i runga ake o Āwherika ki te Raki. Ka mate a Kingi ki Ōtaki i te Tīhema, 1948.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Listener

Reference: Peter Downes and Peter Harcourt, Voices in the air: radio broadcasting in New Zealand, a documentary. Wellington: Methuen in association with Radio New Zealand, 1976, p. 103

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Piripi Walker, Māori radio – reo irirangi – First decades of Māori radio, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/speech/42952/ko-kingi-tahiwi (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Piripi Walker, i tāngia i te 8 October 2013.