Poetry Prize Presented at PaperPlus

(l to r) Rob and Kaye Clarke, Gill Ward, Sue Jamieson, Alan Tristram, Hilary Wooding

The Kapiti Independent’s first poetry prize worth some $85 has been presented at a ceremony in Coastlands PaperPlus.

Editor Alan Tristram presented $50 worth of book tokens and a ‘Book of the Month’ (from C/Lands PaperPlus) to Sue Jamieson, who was representing the winner Cherllisha Silva.

Cherllisha’s winning poem ‘The Western Link’ appeared in KIN on August 12.

The Editor says the standard of entries was high and the competition will now become a regular bi-monthly event.

KIN thanks Kaye and Rob Clarke, poets Gill Ward and Sue Jamieson, and Hilary Wooding (former KCDC councillor and Head Librarian) for their support.

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Nursing tutor Denny McLeod, of Te Horo, says she’s appalled by the continuing slaughter of birds on the Kāpiti Expressway — and says the Transport Agency’s reaction to an earlier KIN story is inadequate.

She says: “Since sending you my letter and challenge to NZTA to erect bird netting to the guardrail to stop the ducks crossing, there have been many more deaths, with bodies littered on the side of the motorway as well as in the middle of the road.

Why doesn't the NZTA actually spend some money (it won't cost much) and actually do something?

Read the full story in our main column (October 23).

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

October, 2007: Citing the Terrorism Suppression Act, police arrested 18 people in raids linked to alleged weapons-training camps near the Bay of Plenty township of Rūātoki.

In addition to raids in Rūātoki and nearby Whakatāne on October 15, police executed search warrants in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Wellington after 12 months of surveillance of activist groups.

Among those arrested was Tūhoe activist Tame Iti. Police claimed Iti was involved in running military-style training camps in the Urewera Ranges and was planning to establish an independent state on traditional Tūhoe land.

Only Iti and three others were brought to trial in February 2012, on charges of participating in a criminal group and possessing firearms. The jury could not agree on the former charge, but all four were found guilty of firearms offences. Two received nine months’ home detention and the other two – including Iti – were sentenced to 2½ years in prison.

In 2013 the Independent Police Conduct Authority found that police had ‘unnecessarily frightened and intimidated’ people during the raids. In 2014 Police Commissioner Mike Bush apologised for mistakes made during the raids.

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Poetry Prize Presented at PaperPlus

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