Answers For The Elderly? – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Older People Want Answers From The Politicians

Residents of Kapiti Retirement Villages will join with organisations that advocate for the District’s elderly population in an ELECTION FORUM at Meadows Church Auditorium on Monday, 1^st September, 2.00 pm.

Four political parties will send candidates

Nathan Guy (National),

Kris Faafoi and Rob McCann (Labour)

Jan Logie (Greens)

Darroch Ball (NZ First).

Some of the issues likely to test the candidates are:

Parity of wages of very low paid carers in State-funded but privately-owned hospitals and in home care services compared with those who do the same work in public hospitals.

Policies to ensure that older people and those with disabilities receive care based on needs rather than dollars.

Ensuring that quality service delivery to the elderly is both protected and enhanced – in the face of constant cost increases and Government policy decisions that are not compensated for by adequate funding.

The Forum has been organised by the Residents’ Association at Kapiti Retirement Trust. The general public is invited to join in what is expected to be a very large turnout.

(Cartoon by Tom Scott. Click on it to enlarge.)

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Kāpiti’s proposed Te Uruhi Gateway at Paraparaumu Beach has been voted through after a day-long debate which include a haka in the District Council chamber and angry protests.

The Kapiti council faced a government deadline for $4.45 million project, with half to come from the Covid Recovery fund.

Vote went 7-4

It wasn’t until after 5.30 pm when the councillors and mayor voted 7-4 to give the go-ahead. The four anti votes came from councillors Jocelyn Prvanov, Gwynn Compton , Martin Halliday and Bernie Randall.

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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.