Te Ao Maori

Former New Plymouth mayor responds to te reo jibe on Facebook

07:54 am on 14 February 2017

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New Plymouth councillor, Murray Chong, is at the centre of a backlash over a Facebook post in which he says te reo Maori is "being kept alive on a respirator". The former mayor of New Plymouth, Andrew Judd, says Mr Chong's comments are a result of a lack of real understanding about our past and a consequence of our ignorance.