Paraparaumu School pupils’ cakes are a treat

Students Tyler Brown(Y7) and Maia Hoskins (Y7) report on annual cook off

At the end of term, Paraparaumu School had an amazing winter-themed Bake Off.

This is an annual tradition at Paraparaumu School and this year was just as popular as any other.

There were a lot of cakes including cupcakes, cakes, and biscuits.

We have some talented bakers who baked some amazing entries such as snowmen, igloos, penguins, and some magnificent snowflakes.

In every class there were at least three winners. At the end of the day all the cakes went for sale, and we raised just over $250.00.

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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

Big Bake Off

Paraparaumu School pupils’ cakes are a treat