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Kathryn Ryan meets Arni Wainui, retiring principal of Te Wharekura o Arowhenua, one of only six Maori immersion schools in the South Island. She founded the school in Southland two decades ago when wasn't able to get her own kids into a kura kaupapa. She ran the school illegally at a local marae for two years, before the Education Ministry gave it official sanction. She tells Nine to Noon about her journey and her legacy.