koreron.

1807 J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 75 Corero..Speaking.

1834 E. Markham N.Z. Recoll. (MS.) 4 A grand Corrirow or talk.

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventures N.Z. I. 78 There were about sixty men assembled, and they proceeded to hold a korero or ‘talk’ on the all-important subject.

1855 C. W. Richmond Jrnl. 20 Aug. in Richmond—Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 176 They had a long korero about New Zealand and the Bay, where the Doctor has been quartered for 5 years.

1863 T. Moser Mahoe Leaves 30 He had to pass several pahs on the road, at all of which there would be ‘koreros’.

1883 J. P. Ward Wanderings with Maori Prophets ii. 13 He was brim full of talk, or korero.

1930 B. Guthrie N.Z. Memories 54 After some korero and polite speeches the Maoris stood aside.

1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Check to your King xx. 236 The old and conspicuous means of the korero as a call to arms.

1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 13 There was to be a korero on politics and the revival of Maori art.

1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 22 June 58/3 After New Zealand's first test defeat in South Africa in 1960 by 13–0 all members of the touring team had a korero the next morning.

1971 N.Z. Listener 22 Mar. 7/2 The korero..would let the Maoris tell the pakehas what they couldn't so easily tell them in a setting shaped by European conventions.