Waereti Tait-Wall (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhoe), has died. Photo / Māori Television
By Te Ao Māori News
Waereti Tait-Wall (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhoe), a former Māori language commissioner, has died after a long illness. She was 73.
Waereti was appointed to Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori in 1999, at the end of Sir Timoti Karetu's 12-year term as the Māori Language
Commissioner.
She served alongside Miria Simpson, Ruka Broughton, Quinton Hita and Dr Patu Hohepa.
As a social worker, Waereti supported her uncle, John Rangihau, and his work on the report Te Pua o te Ata Tū, which first advocated a Māori approach to the government's welfare policies in 1988.
