‘Don’t Miss The Literary Festival’ – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Popular Friends of The Libraries Extravaganza

This year’s theme is The Play’s The Thing and sessions are spread over three days.

Friday 13 October: Making the Play

Playwright Gary Henderson will launch the festival.

7:30pm

$15

Kapiti Community Centre

Light refreshments will be served.

Saturday 14 October: Playing the Play

Featuring Dawn Sanders and Claire Thorley

10:00am-12:00 noon

$10

Paraparaumu Library Meeting Room

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served

Saturday 14 October

Featuring Pinky Agnew, Danny Mulheron and Nick Ward

2:00-4:00pm

$10

Paraparaumu Library Meeting Room

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served

Sunday 15 October

Visit the Kapiti Playhouse

10.30am

Free

Pick up the programme brochure from any Kapiti library.

Ring FOTKL Chair, Janet Secker, on 902 1173 for more information.

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

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.