The document is a message in te reo Maori (the Maori language) from someone named TauaM to a group called Oraka-Aparima Runaka. It wishes the group a good Christmas and new year, encourages speaking and learning the Maori language, includes pictures and questions about seals, rocks and a marae (meeting house). It was written in 2012 and encourages efforts to have 1,000 homes speaking Maori by 2025.

1. Kia ora te whanau o Oraka-Aparima Runaka.
He mihi ki a koutou .
Tere pau haere te wa (Time has gone quickly!)
Hope you all had a good Kirihimete me hararei.
Kua timata naianei te mahi o te tau hou nei ko te tau 2012.
E hika ma!
Kaua e wareware ki te korero, ako hoki to tatou reo.
Na TauaM
Draw some hangi food in this box:
What do you think these sacks were used for?
Why are they hanging on a fence?
I wonder if your hakui, hakoro, Taua or Poua know
where this marae is.
What are those two things on its roof for?
Titiro ki tenei kekeno. (Look at this seal)
E noho ana ia kei whea?
Ki tou whakaaro, e whakaaro ana ia te aha?
What do you think he is thinking?
Tell someone your answer.
He pohatu /kohatu nui enei. Kei te motu
Ruapuke e noho ana aua toka.
Have you climbed on any big rocks? Where
were they?
Whakatangia he pikitia iti kei raro ra i a koe e
noho ana i te tihi o etahi kohatu.
Rock / rocks:
Kohatu Pohatu Toka.
NOTICE!
This puzzle page was written in 2012, just after
Christmas.
I plan to post some of my ‘older’ pages so you can
have a go and read.
1,000 homes speaking the reo by 2025— We better
ALL get to it.