The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 60 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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

Answers below.

Woody Allen auteur

Kalimantan, Brunei, Sarawak and Sabah are all located on which island? (Borneo)

What does it mean when a film director is described as an auteur? (the director has a style all her/his own)

Which three states in the USA have just four letters? (Iowa / Utah / Ohio)

What does op cit mean in the footnotes of a book? (in the reference previously cited)

In which manufacturing industry was the Bessemer process used? (steel making)

Pope Francis was born in which country? (Argentina)

What is convectional rainfall? (precipitation which results from intense heating)

Which trophy is contested when the Black Ferns play the Diamonds? (The Constellation Cup)

The Unification of Germany was completed in 1848, 1866 or 1870? (1870)

Who is David Gascoigne married to? Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy)

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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.