The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 74 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.
Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!
Answers on Sunday.

Who preceded David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister?

Which government ministry has the Maori name Manatū Taonga?

In which city would you find the sporting complex called Roland Garros?

What is the link between the Swedish novelists David Lagercrantz and Stieg Larsson?

In Cockney rhyming slang what are Plates of meat?

Pecorino cheese is made from the milk of goats, cows or sheep?

This year is the 500^th anniversary of what momentous event in Germany?

What is the German word for a coup d’état?

In the Johnny Cash song where did he shoot a man just to watch him die?

In which part of the body is the femur bone?

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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.