The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 64 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

Which animal lives in a lodge?

What record would the England rugby team have established if they had beaten Ireland over the weekend?

What do the Vietnamese call the Vietnam War?

What were the first names of the two Everly Brothers?

Name the English poet who died on the way to Gallipoli in 1914.

Who is the First Minister for Scotland?

How many millimetres in a kilometre?

In which part of New Zealand is Whangaroa?

What is the German word for a political coup?

Which New Zealand company used the slogan sure to rise?

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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.