Creative Artist Featuring on Thursday – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Publishers, calligraphers, designers, readers, writers, anyone interested in how a designer makes decisions about how an image conveys the right message is sure to find this interesting. Jennifer Ramshaw, FOTL Committee

Fascinating Friends of the Library session coming up

Paekakariki resident Sarah Maxey is a highly talented graphic artist and book cover designer.

Over the last twenty years she has won many awards for her displays, cover designs and typography.

She will be speaking

on Thursday 20 April
at 7:00pm
in the Paraparaumu Library Meeting Room.

Sarah also designs postcards, prints and posters, and will have some for sale on the night.

All are welcome and tea/coffee and biscuits will be served.

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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.