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The NZFS waiata and moteatea webpages get visited a thousand times a a day by Maori all over the world — except by our 5000 mauhere, who have plenty of empty time locked in their cells, but cannot use the internet.

You can help our prisoners by going to a print shop and asking them to print and bind these PDFs. You can then send these taonga kura to prison librarians, but......

Wed 8th April 2026
I have just discovered that Printonline.co.nz does colour printing from 29 cents a page, B&W pages for 9 cents, and plastic ringbinding for $4. I am I the process of contacting them and finding the cost of a bulk order. So taiho until I get a reply.



PINEPINE TE KURA  

Print in colour to the 14th page
(cover plus numbers 1 to 13)
Print 15th to 32nd in B&W)
31st is blank.
Pinepine.pdf

pinepine_print_cut&paste.pdf

Print one page in colour.
These are colour images for you to cut out at home and use to brighten up pages 54-30.

Now do plastic ring-binding with clear plastic covers front and back.

Next you need a homemade CD with a nicely labelled cover.
Load all these tracks onto it.

1_pinepine
2_nau_mai_e_tama
3_piki_ake_kake_ake
4_whakakake
5_kaore_nei
An MP3 for Te Kooti's Pinepine. You'll need to copy it off this Youtube.
You can figure out a way of making a sleeve for the CD at the end of the book.

   KA MATE
 - its origins,
  development
and significance

             Ka_Mate.pdf

This has a coloured cover page, plus a few lines of coloured text on about 10 pages. You may be able to get a discount for these at the print shop. If you can't, get them printed in black and white.

      HE MOTEATEA
 O NGA WAKA HEKENGA

When I made the first one, I just got the local print-shop people to print every HTML web document, then bind them all together. Now I have joined them into one big printable PDF for you.

         Voyaging_Chants.pdf

Of course you can print off any other webpages on the NZFS website yourselves, then get them bound and sent to prison librarians, or staple them together and send with letters to your relatives in prison.

Please email me and let me know what webpage-books you have already sent, and to what prison. Also PLEASE email me if you spot any errors in any of these documents. Take a screen shot of the error.
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