He Rau No te Rakau Reoreo: A Basic Māori Word List, Preliminary Version. Anaru Robb in association with Tawini Rangihau and Hiria Tumoana (compilers). Ed. Richard Benton. Wellington, N.Z.: Māori Unit, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1979.

Ko Ngā Kupu Pu Noa o Te Reo Māori/The First Basic Māori Word List. Comp. and ed. Richard A. Benton with the assistance of Hiria Tumoana and Andrew Robb. Wellington, N.Z.: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1982.
The authors write: ‘the list presented here is a first attempt to provide teachers and learners with information which will enable them to incorporate into the earliest stages of teaching and learning those words which are likely to be encountered most often in many different situations - the general purpose words, which are needed almost all the time, as against those more closely tied to specific events and special topics.’

Nga Kupu Māori: Māori-English Dictionary for Children. Wellington, N.Z.: NZCER, 1986.

Hiria Tumoana