The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 46 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Answers below.

America's next president — America’s next president

1 Which town was closest to the epicentre of the recent 7.5 earthquake? (Waiau)

2 What is the date for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump? (20 January 2017)

3 In which sport is the Constellation Cup contested? (netball)

4 Tapis is a food dish, a decorated tapestry or a Spanish dance? (a decorated tapestry)

5 silver-ferns What was the nationality of jazzman Bix Beiderbecke? (American)

6 New Zealand uses about 90% of the world’s supply of 1080 poison. True or false? (True)

7 Julia Gillard was Australian prime minister until mid 2013. Name her three successors. (Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull)

8 pearl-harbor In which part of the body is the AC joint located? (the shoulder)

9 What happened on what Franklin Roosevelt called a day which will live in infamy? (the bombing of Pearl Harbor)

10 Who played the two leading roles in the 1960 film The Millionairess? (Sophia Loren and Peter Sellars)

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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.