This video is part of Auckland Council Libraries’ Ngako: The Collections series, featuring librarian Xavier Forsman as he looks at the phrase book and what that said about the use of te reo Māori in 1885. Video / Auckland Libraries
The first Māori phrasebook published in NZ
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