The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 53 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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Radiata pine is native to northern California. True or false?

Who was the first emperor of the Roman Empire?

What was Bangladesh called before it became a separate state?

PIQA® BOO® is a new brand of pear, apple or peach?

In which event in Rio, did New Zealander Luuka Jones win a silver medal?

What United States organisation is referred to by the letters DAR?

In mountainous landscapes what is a névé?

Who composed the overture called Fingal’s Cave, named after the sea cave in the Scottish Hebrides?

What does leitmotif mean?

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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.