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Māori Radio Looks Back on Year of Motivation

Description: This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24th July 1985 "Palmerston North's Māori Community Action radio programme this week celebrates a year on air. And improving community response to the show coincides with a revival of taha Māori by the local Rangitāne people, says programme producer Tangihoro Fitzgerald. "This part of the country has always been stagnant as far as Māori things are concerned. People just didn't seem to be motivated. But now that's all changed because the local tribe, Rangitāne, is really starting to take its place in the community as being the tangata whenua. Without a tangata whenua you can't really get Māori things off the ground." The urban situation and mobility of the Rangitāne people meant they had become dispersed over the past 80 years. "This is an unusual tribe. There was no handing down of things Māori from the old people to the younger generation. But the Rangitāne people are now starting to come to grips with their taha Māori." Pictured: Mrs Tangihoro Fitzgerald with 2XS programme production manager John Haynes [The full article can be read on the newspaper microfilm held at the City Library.]