The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 13 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Number 13 in the series.

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

Answers on Monday evening.

Easter comes after the vernal equinox. What is the more common name for vernal?

Why does the actual date of Easter vary so much from year to year?

In the Easter Rebellion which city was the scene of most of the action?

What is an Easter basket?

What is the more common name for Golgotha?

In Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper, some experts identify a woman pictured at the table. Who do they consider her to be?

Good Friday is a federal public holiday throughout the United States. True or false?

According to Luke’s gospel, after his resurrection Christ met two men in the countryside who did not recognise him. Where were they going?

What do Christians call the day before Good Friday?

Which New Zealand city holds a Royal Easter Show?

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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).

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.