The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 69 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

~ The latest challenge with an appropriate theme.

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

~ Answers on Sunday.

What do the letters ANZAC stand for?

Which later Governor General of New Zealand won a Victoria Cross in the First World War?

Name the island in the Mediterranean Sea where New Zealand troops fought a rear-guard action against German troops in World War II.

What colour is the peace poppy?

What name was given to men would not fight in the World Wars because of their pacifist beliefs?

The New Zealand Navy assisted the Americans and the British in the Iraq War. True or false?

Complete the line in the song: It’s a long way to Tipperary ____________________

In which war was the New Zealand K Force involved?

What is the Maori name for the National War Memorial Park in Wellington?

Who was the New Zealand prime minister when the remains of the unknown warrior came back from France?

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

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.