The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 48 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Answers below.

1 savoy In which European country would you find Savoy? (France)

2 Name the Argentine driver who won the Formula One Championship five times in the 1950s. (Juan Fangio)

3 The Germans call it glühwein, what is our term? (mulled wine)

4 At which entertainment festival do they award the Palme D’Or? (Cannes Film Festival)

5 What is an aquifer? (Porous rock which contains and transmits water)

6 Donald Trump is the first American president since World War Two, to be elected having had no previous political experience. True or false? (False)

7 The lemur is native to which island? (Madagascar)

8 Which species of bird once flew across America in hundreds of millions? (passenger pigeons)

9 Wendy Perriam is a writer, film star or model? (writer)

10 Who wrote The Swimming Pool Library? (Alan Hollinghurst)

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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.