Kenny McFadden At Hoop Club Kapiti – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Basketball legend in town

Story by Angelo Robinson, Photography by Ben Hopkinson

On Sunday 3 December 2017 Kenny McFadden was in the district.

His credentials are unquestioned:

Exchequer Saints Player
Hoop Club Founder with Coach Angelo Robinson & Coach Terry Stallworth
Director of Coaching Hoop Club Wellington & New Zealand Basketball Academy
former Basketball New Zealand Jnr Tall Blacks Coach
Coach and Mentor to Oklahoma NBA Star Steve Adams.

He came to Hoop Club Kapiti to work with our Hoop Club players and coaches in the middle and last Hoop Club sessions: 8 to 10 year olds 10.30 to 11.30am, 11 to 13 year olds 11.30 to 12.30pm.

A fun learning experience!

This was a great opportunity and experience for our players and coaches to learn some new skills and drills to add to the training the players get every Sunday at Hoop Club.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed working with Kenny on Sunday, it was a fun atmosphere and everyone certainly learnt a lot.

It was wonderful to see our players and coaches working with one of New Zealand’s great coaches.

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

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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.