Kāpiti police arrest two over BMW theft

By Alan Tristram

Kāpiti police say they’ve arrested two people in connection with the BMW racing bike stolen from a Waikanae property three weeks ago.

They say they got several calls from the public over the stolen bike,’which was encouraging.’

Police called for help after the BMW bike was stolen from a garage in a property at Greenaway Road in Waikanae. Earlier a Harley Davidson motorbike was stolen from the carpark outside the Jolly Miller pub in Paraparaumu.Detective Douglas Nuku says:

“As a result of a fingerprint hit, we executed several search warrants last week and arrested two Levin offenders for the burglary to the address in Greenaway Road, Waikanae.

“Property from the Greenaway burglary was located at their address including $3,000 worth of builders’ tools stolen from a vehicle in Palmerston North the previous night.

The BMW motorbike was not found. However, Detective Nuku says, the offenders had a digital camera with photographs of family members sitting on the stolen BMW motorbike which was parked in their garage.

So the motorbike is now the focus of the investigation.

And there is no news at present on the whereabouts of the stolen Harley Davidson.

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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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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.

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Kāpiti police arrest two over BMW theft