Kapiti Club Names Most Promising Players

Kapiti Chess Club Juniors Johnny Hynes (left) and Josh Bunker lay hands on the coveted 2011 ‘Most Promising Player’ trophy at the Club’s recent prize-giving ceremony.

Chess Club President Guy Burns says: “The Trophy is a new one for the Club and the Committee quickly determined Johnny and Josh as top candidates for the prize.

“But, when it came to deciding between the two players, the wisdom of Solomon was needed.” Mr Buirns says “We were unable to decide one player over the other and eventually awarded the Trophy to both, who will share it for 6 months each.”

The Kapiti Chess Club welcomes new players and encourages anyone interested in chess to “pop down to the Club and have a look”.

The club will resume play for the year on February 1. Members meet on Wednesdays at 7.30pm at the Paraparaumu Library.

For further information please contact Club Captain David Paul on 04 905 0898

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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.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Junior Chess Champs

Kapiti Club Names Most Promising Players