Art Work of the Week: Deirdre’s Calligraphy – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

A wonderful calligrapher and tutor

By Pam Kessler

Deirdre Hassed is Melbourne based but is a New Zealander! Auckland born and bred, Deirdre lived and worked here until 1993. Deirdre conducts workshops in Australia and New Zealand and at the yearly Art in Action festival in England.

deirdre-exhibit-melbourne-img_0677 Deirdre supports our club by

~ entering her work in our local exhibitions,

~ conducting workshops for us here in Kapiti,

~ keeping up to date with our events through our magazine

~ keeping in contact with club members.

Deirdre is a patient, kind, and gentle tutor who has the amazing ability to make students feel totally relaxed in her classes while at the same time inspiring them to achieve greater things in their work.

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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.