Dame Naida Glavish: The Kia Ora Lady
Kahurangi Rangimarie Naida Glavish first shot to national prominence in 1984 while working at the Post Office telephone exchange in Helensville. In Dame Naida's case she greeted you with a friendly 'kia ora.' Her supervisor instructed her to stop using te reo Maori. She refused, was demoted and the story was picked up by the media. It stirred comment from the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, and even the BBC did a story on it. Now she's written a book called 'The Kia Ora Lady' which looks back at that incident but also a life dedicated to the uplift of her people in areas like health…
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