Photo of the Week

From KIN Photographic Editor Ian Linning

‘Magic Kapiti Morning’ shows Kapiti at 07.30am on May 10th this year.

The light conditions were quite amazing with the early post-dawn light creating the texture on the island — and also creating the rainbow on the left hand side.

I’ve lived for 10 years on the Coast, and these are some of the most unique lighting conditions I’ve seen.

(For the photographic enthusiast, the image was captured on a Canon 5D MK 111, ISO 320, 1/400 @ f4.0)

Extra Note: And I was still in my pyjamas when I captured this!

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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.