Police catch Youths in possession

13 September 2010

Police located a 18 year old male in Ruapehu Street, Paraparaumu on Friday
night 10 September in Possession of a orange spray can, and white shoe
restorer.

Police were unable to charge him with tagging offences because he did not
admit to any, however he was charged with having in his possession
implements used for tagging offences without reasonable excuse.

Sergeant Muir said "it is unfortunate we were unable to link him to the fresh
tagging on the railway platform."

Police also located 2 youths in Kena Kena school grounds.
One of the youths was in possession of a tomahawk, crow bar and two hammers.
This youth admitted to having these in his possession so he could destroy Mayoral signs.

These males will be dealt with by Kapiti Youth aid team.

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.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Youths caught Tagging

Police catch Youths in possession