Kāpiti’s Jacinta Beckley selected for the Basketball N Z Under-20 Women’s Team

By Angelo Robinson

Kāpiti’s Jacinta Beckley has been picked for the NZ Under-20 Women’s Basketball Team and will be travelling to Tasmania in February to play in the Australian State Champs.

Paraparaumu College student Jacinta has been training intensively from 6.30 am until 8am, before classes, at Kāpiti College — and also has special sessions at the ASB stadium in Kilbirnie. Read the full story, with photos, on our Sports Page.

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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.

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Kāpiti’s Jacinta Beckley selected for the Basketball N Z Under-20 Women’s Team