The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 86 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

The 1859 Battle of Solferino led to the establishment of which international organisation?

Who was the subject of the play and film A Man For All Seasons?

Huon pine is native to which Australian state?

Where in New Zealand is Fernhill?

The paramount tribe of the South Island, Ngai Tahu, actually invaded from the North Island in the late 18^th century. True or false?

Complete the line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: I come to bury Caesar not _ _ _

Michel Houellebecq is a French football player, fashion designer or writer and poet?

Which country won the Women’s Sevens Rugby tournament at the Rio Olympics?

The song Another Suitcase in Another Hall is from which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?

In French it is printemps, in German it is Frühling. What is the English word?

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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.