Helicopter Rescue – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Rescue ‘Copter sent to Upper Hutt

then the Wairarapa

20^th November 2009

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to Whiteman’s Valley Upper Hutt last night at 7:30pm.

A 9yr-old-boy had fallen while playing on the trampoline at home, suffering head and neck injuries.

The Helicopter flew in with a Wellington Free Paramedic on board.

A Wellington Free Ambulance was already at the location and had immobilised the patient ready for the flight.

The boy was flown to the Wellington Hospital Emergency Department for treatment.

Shortly afterwards, the Westpac Helicopter was dispatched again to Tinui in the Wairarapa where a 7-month-old baby was having a seizure.

Due to the remote location the Ambulance and Fire Service had not long been at the scene before the helicopter arrived.

Once the baby was assessed by the Wellington Free Paramedic the baby and the mother were flown to the Wellington Hospital Emergency Department.

Both patients are in a stable condition in Wellington Hospital

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.