Kapiti Basketball News: October 2013 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

By Angelo Robinson

Selected to play for Wellington

Congratulations to the following Kapiti players who were selected for the 2013 Wellington Under 13 Boys Basketball Team:

Josh Bunker,
Emmersen Kavakura
Konan Snow.

This Wellington Team is attending the BBNZ Under 13 National Tournament being held in Dunedin this week finishing on Sunday 13 October.

Unfortunately Kapiti player Josh Bunker broke his wrist last week and is now unable to play, but he is still travelling away with the team, supporting his team mates and assisting Coach Peter Gosnell with stats and videoing games.

This is a great opportunity for our three Kapiti players and we wish them well for the Tournament.

KAPITI BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Age Group Basketball Development Squads -Term 4

In preparation for 2014, training start in Term 4.

The first Age Group Tournaments for U13, U15 U17 & U19 are in March 2014

Under 13 & Under 15 Boys & Girls start on Thursday 24 October

6.00 to 8.00pm
at KCDC Sportshall, Paraparaumu College, Mazengarb Road

PLAYERS MUST BE Under 13 & Under 15 as of 31 December 2014 – EVERYONE is

welcome to attend these Skills & Development Training sessions.

ALL NEW PLAYERS MOST WELCOME

Under 17 & U19 Boys & Girls start on Sunday 20 October

12.30 to1.30pm
at KCDC Sportshall, Paraparaumu College, Mazengarb Road.

PLAYERS MUST BE Under 17 & Under 19 as of 31 December 2014 -EVERYONE is

welcome to attend these Skills & Development Training sessions.

ALL NEW PLAYERS MOST WELCOME

All enquiries contact Angelo Robinson 04 9040142 or email

<mailto:info@kba.co.nz> info@kba.co.nz

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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.