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 […]

4 months | New Zealand

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 […]

4 months | National Stories

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 […]

4 months | Kapiti Coast

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 […]

5 months | Sports

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 […]

5 months | Sports

Hurricanes blown away!

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

5 months | National Stories

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 […]

5 months | Sports

Crusaders Look Like Champions

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

5 months | New Zealand

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 […]

5 months | Sports

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 […]

5 months | Sports

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 […]

5 months | Kapiti Coast

105th Tour de France Underway

I dedicate the yellow jersey to the whole country. Stage 1 winner, Colombian, Fernando Gaviria Starting in the Vendée […]

5 months | Entertainment

STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti District Mayor K Gurunathan has warned the Government the district ‘flatly opposes’ any compulsory marriage with other councils to supply water.

He says one of the Government’s delivery options is ‘mandatory aggregation, something which has not gone down well with a significant number of councils across the country’.

But he also says the Council keen to talk funding with Government during discussions on New Zealand’s water management

Three waters review

Local Government Minister, Nanaia Mahuta, released Cabinet’s Three Waters Review paper this week.

This looks at reshaping drinking water regulations and explores different water service delivery options. Full story in main (column left), November 24.

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

November, 1918 -- the German revolution

The causes of the German revolution of 1918 were the extreme burdens suffered by the population during the four years of the First World War, the strong impact of the defeat on the German Empire and the social tensions between the general population and the elite of aristocrats and bourgeoisie who held power and had just lost the war.

The roots of the revolution lay in the German Empire's defeat in the War and the social tensions that came to a head shortly thereafter.