Fun Day For Young Basketballers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

KBA and Hoop Club Kapiti Family Picnic and Fun Day

By Angelo Robinson

On Sunday 20 March, in glorious sunshine, Hoop Club Kapiti and Kapiti Basketball Association had their AGM and family picnic at Otaihanga Domain.

Families had games of cricket, softball, Frisbee, egg and spoon race, and ended up with an entertaining egg catching contest.

The highlight was the awarding of sponsored trophies for outstanding contributions last season, including:

Paul Kaiato receiving his trophy (Photo Paula Cowle) — Kaito Ohara receiving his trophy (Photo Paula Cowle)

~ Paul Roberts for the ‘Grafic’ KBA Coach of the Year

~ Kaito Ohara for the ‘Finman’ KBA U17 Boys Player of the Year

~ Evyator Tabor for the ‘Beach Osteopathic Centre’ KBA U15 Boys of the Year

~ ‘Downtown Cinema’ team of the year went to the KBA U15 Boys Team

~ Amy Parker for the ‘Coffee+’ KBA Referee of the Year

~ Chairman’s Award went to Patrick Caudle for over 16 years work as the KBA Treasurer.

Angelo Robinson said that “KBA and Hoop Club Kapiti is all about our wider family and it was great to see so many families relaxing and having fun in the sun”.

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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.