Happy news from the Kapiti Coast Council

A KCDC media release says Kapiti Coast Mayor Ross Church has married his long term partner Vicki McCarthy in the presence of 45 family members and close friends.

Justice of the Peace and Councillor, Diane Ammundsen, conducted the ceremony at Greenmantle Estate, in Otaihanga.

“It was a fabulous day,” Mayor Church says. “We both enjoyed every moment.”

And the Council’s media team says the newly-weds are now on a week-long tour of the Central North Island.

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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.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Mayor Church’s Nuptial’s

Happy news from the Kapiti Coast Council