Sports – Kāpiti Independent

Easy Wins in the Sydney Double-header

All Blacks and Black Ferns dominant By Roger Childs The All Blacks didn’t score until the 38th minute and earlier […]

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Hail to the Superbly Coached Crusaders!

Second successive title By Roger Childs I think we all expected them to win: top of the table, highly talented […]

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Coastlands Aquatic Centre Turns Five

Increasing popularity Kāpiti Coast District Council and Coastlands Aquatic Centre in Paraparaumu will be celebrating the centre’s fifth birthday all […]

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Photo of the Week: Norwegian Supporters

Millions watched the Tour go by! The enthusiastic support of spectators adds to the colour and atmosphere of the famous […]

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First Welshman to Win the Tour

Tour de France ends in style By Roger Childs In keeping with tradition, the most famous bike race in […]

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Hurricanes blown away!

Christchurch rugby guru Richard Belton says The Hurricanes were strangely missing in action for much of the match. Not the […]

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Return of the Three Kings

Tennis expert Richard Childs says that the Nadal-Joker match is maybe even the most important result of the year. Tennis […]

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Crusaders Look Like Champions

… they (The Crusaders) seem to be in a different class from everyone else. Melbourne sports correspondent, John Smith Predictable […]

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Triathlon Upset in Hamburg

After the event Cassandre Beaugrand said: Last year I had a crash and today it’s Bastille Day and my boyfriend’s […]

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Welcome Back to the Joker!

Novak Djokovic says: It could have gone either way, there was very little between the two players. Djokovic beats the […]

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Kapiti Players in New Zealand Basketball Team

Angelo Robinson says this is an amazing opportunity for these players. Heading for Las Vegas Kapiti Basketball Players Rachel Pike […]

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105th Tour de France Underway

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Former Kapiti Mayor Iride McCloy

Former Kāpiti Mayor Iride McCloy is appealing to the present Mayor and Council to abandon plans to force a large Maori family from their home in central Paraparaumu.

Mayor K Gurunathan and Council want to sell the house and use the money to reduce Council debts.

But Iride McCloy says: “Housing has been one of Councils priorities in addressing the special needs of the Kapiti Community — and this inexcusable fiasco is an

Kapiti Mayor K Gurunathan — why doesn’t he protect the family?

indictment on the credibility of the Council.

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

The Treaty was first signed in February, 1840.

The Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement made in 1840 between representatives of the British Crown and more than 500 Māori chiefs. It resulted in the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand by Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in May 1840. Most chiefs signed a Māori-language version of the treaty. The English- and Māori-language versions held different meanings, and Māori and Europeans therefore had different expectations of the treaty’s terms. Ever since, resolution of these differences has presented New Zealand with challenges.