SALAD WITH A DIFFERENCE – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

BROWN RICE SALAD

250g brown rice

3 spring onions,

1 red pepper, cored, seeded and finely chopped

Salt

50g raisins

50g cashew nuts, roasted and chopped

2 tbs chopped parsley

6 tbs soy sauce dressing.

Cook rice in boiling salted water until tender. (approx.40mins)

Rinse, drain well and cool.

Place in bowl and add the remaining ingredients.

Toss thoroughly before serving Serves 6

SOY SAUCE DRESSING

175ml olive oil

4tbs soy sauce

2tbs lemon juice

1 clove garlic, crushed

1cm piece root ginger, finely chopped

Salt and pepper

Put all ingredients in a screw-topped jar. Add salt and pepper to taste and shake well and add desired amount to salad. Makes 300ml

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.