The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 76 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

The first America’s Cup races were across the Atlantic. True of false?

A spinet was a prototype bicycle, a type of organ or an early sewing machine?

What is the English name for the island of Rakiura?

Who wrote the Father Brown stories?

Italy’s most famous ham comes from which region?

What do the initials LGBT stand for?

Who is Sir David Gascoigne married to?

Name the four American states which border Mexico.

What is name for the rocks and sediment carried along and deposited by glaciers ?

Who was Todd Barclay’s predecessor in what is now known as the Clutha-Southland electorate?

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti’s proposed Te Uruhi Gateway at Paraparaumu Beach has been voted through after a day-long debate which include a haka in the District Council chamber and angry protests.

The Kapiti council faced a government deadline for $4.45 million project, with half to come from the Covid Recovery fund.

Vote went 7-4

It wasn’t until after 5.30 pm when the councillors and mayor voted 7-4 to give the go-ahead. The four anti votes came from councillors Jocelyn Prvanov, Gwynn Compton , Martin Halliday and Bernie Randall.

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.