The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 82 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Answers below.

What is a group of owls called? (a parliament)

Who wrote the A Journal of the Plague Year? (Daniel Defoe)

What do nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds have in common? (they bring rain)

Who wrote the song with the opening line I am a lineman for the county? (Glenn Campbell)

Andreas Reischek, who lived for 12 years in New Zealand in the late 19^th century was a naturalist, explorer, museum collector or all of these? (all of these)

Trees in jungles can have up a thousand plants growing on them. True or false? (true)

Which electorate does Jacinda Ardern represent? (Mt Albert)

Who is the head Coach of the Crusaders rugby team? (Scott Robertson)

What is a CHOGM? (A Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting)

What does the Latin phrase sine qua non mean? (an essential requirement)

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100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.