Showers, then clearer weather ahead

By Alsn Tristraa

The Met Service is forecasting showers first for the Kapiti area centred on Otaki, then finer weather through to New Year.

The forecast says:

Monday

Showers developing during the morning, then clearing in the evening, and becoming fine. Northwesterlies developing in the afternoon.

(Issued: 4:58pm 29 Dec)

25°c High — 14°c Overnight
Tuesday

Fine spells. Isolated light showers early morning, with northwesterly breezes.

(Issued: 1:21pm 29 Dec)

21°c High — 14°c Overnight

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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

Weather Until New Year

Showers, then clearer weather ahead

Monday

Tuesday