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Bachelor of Digital Media and SIT2LRN Diploma in Digital Film - Royce Baxter
Royce Baxter has been very busy completing the first year of the Bachelor of Digital Media, whilst nearing completion of the SIT2LRN Diploma in Digital Film and if that wasn't enough, has also secured a full time position working at Southlands very own television station - CUE Television which can be viewed on Sky Channel 110 and Freeview Channel 23 both broadcast nationwide.
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Glossary of Common Mäori Words

Here is a list of Mäori words that you are likely to come across and their meanings:


Aotearoa

Land of the long white cloud (the Mäori name for New Zealand)

Haere mai

Welcome

Haere rä

Goodbye

Hangi

Traditional way of cooking food, where the food is cooked in the ground

Hongi

To press noses, a formal greeting

Hui

Meeting to discuss a special topic

Iwi

Tribal people

Kai

Food

Ka pai

Good

Kia ora

Mäori greeting, also used as an expression of gratitude and agreement

Mana

Prestige, authority, status

Marae

A Mäori communal facility (generally consisting of a meeting house, dining hall, kitchen, and ablution area)

Me

And

Mihimihi

Greeting

Pakeha

The Mäori word for non-Mäori people

Rangatira

High-ranking person

Reo

Language

Tamariki

Children

Tängata whenua

(local) people of the land

Tangi

Funeral

Taonga

Values (spiritual, personal) and physical treasures

Tapu

Sacred

Tënä koe

How do you do?

Te reo

The language (Mäori)

Tiriti

Treaty

Waka

Canoe, vessel

Wänanga

University

Whänau

Family

Whare

House, meeting house on a marae

Whenua

Land