The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 107 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 4.

The fifth quiz of 2018.

Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!

Answers on Sunday.

The US Marines first arrived in New Zealand in 1941, 1942 or 1943?

What does ersatz mean?

Which country hosted the first Winter Olympics back in 1923?

Name the two rivers that meet at Cromwell.

Which famous sportsman has a wife named Mirka?

Most of the Kapiti beach area is under the jurisdiction of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. True of false?

What is the name of Angela Merkel’s party?

Who wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest?

What does the name for the group of islands in South America called Tierra del Fuego mean in English?

What is the name for the type of rainfall which results from intense heating of the land?

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti’s proposed Te Uruhi Gateway at Paraparaumu Beach has been voted through after a day-long debate which include a haka in the District Council chamber and angry protests.

The Kapiti council faced a government deadline for $4.45 million project, with half to come from the Covid Recovery fund.

Vote went 7-4

It wasn’t until after 5.30 pm when the councillors and mayor voted 7-4 to give the go-ahead. The four anti votes came from councillors Jocelyn Prvanov, Gwynn Compton , Martin Halliday and Bernie Randall.

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.