Waitangi Day Celebration at Kapiti

Island Signing Site

Special – by Alan Tristram

21st January 2010

Waiorua-Bay-1 — Waiorua Bay, North End of Kapiti.

The “Kapiti Island Alive (award winning tourism operator) is inviting people from the Kapiti Coast to help celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi signing at Kapiti.”

In a unique tour, visitors will be taken by boat to Kapiti to visit the site of actual signing.

There will be a commentary by a local historian and a descendant of a Treaty signatory.

Kapiti Independent News is pleased to be able to bring you this special invitation from the Kaitiaki o Kapiti Trust – Friends of Kapiti Island.

Visit the historic territory where the treaty was signed.Commentary at historical pointson Kapiti Island.Powhiri and lunch on Kapiti

Island.

$185 charge per person –

includes: boat cruise, guide &

commentary permits & lunch.

(charge subject to a minimum of

20 participants)

Early bookings essential.

Numbers strictly limited to 20

participants.

Sunday February 7th

10:30am-4pm

For bookings or enquiries

contact Minnie

minnie@kapitiislandalive.co.nz

KAPITI ISLAND ALIVE

or ph: 021 126 7525

Supported by Kaitiaki o Kapiti Friends of Kapiti Island Trust & Te Manatu TaongaMinistry for Culture & Heritage

Motungarara1935 - Copy — Motungarara Island , South East end of Kapiti Island (Click on Image to Enlarge)

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

Waitangi on Kapiti

Waitangi Day Celebration at Kapiti

Island Signing Site