Paraparaumu College wins thriller – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

A great game before a packed house

By Angelo Robinson

(Victorious Paraparaumu College team: Back row (L-R): Coach Steve Botica, Sam Botica, Kevin Vaeulaga, Kristian McLeod, Zack Rammage, Kallum Smith, Ben Hillier Front Row: Matt Jonkers, Ryan Evans. Roymana Fuimaono (absent))

The Paraparaumu College senior boys basketball team maintained its unbeaten run against Kapiti College in the annual Angelo Robinson Cup match on Friday night. Hosted by Kapiti College, not a spare seat was available as supporters from both sides filled the gym.

Kapiti got off to a great start but was pegged back by Paraparaumu who led at the end of the first quarter by 4 points. In the second quarter the teams traded buckets and Paraparaumu led by 5 points at half time. Paraparaumu had a strong third quarter and had kicked out to a 10 point lead.

But Kapiti showing great fighting spirit, pegging back the lead, however Paraparaumu ran out the winners by 5 points in an extremely exciting and high quality game. This is the 5^th year the teams have played for the cup and the rivalry is as strong as any other between the two colleges.

At the presentation of the cup, Angelo Robinson applauded the huge array of talent on display in both teams and encouraged all the players to continue with their basketball careers, before presenting the cup to the Paraparaumu College captain Kristian McLeod.

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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).

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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.