RASPBERRY AND HAZELNUT CRUNCH

75g margarine or butter

125g wholemeal breadcrumbs

75g muscovado sugar

50g hazelnuts, chopped and roasted

350g raspberries

Melt margarine or butter in a frying pan.

Add the breadcrumbs and cook until golden.

Cool, then stir in sugar and hazelnuts.

Set aside 4 raspberries.

Divide half remainder between individual glass dishes.

Cover with half the crumbs.

Repeat the layers.

Top with the raspberries and serve chilled with yoghurt or ice-cream.

Serves 4

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.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

SUMMER DESSERT

RASPBERRY AND HAZELNUT CRUNCH