Talented local Artists

Leeann Morgan, District Librarian

November 2012

November is going to be an exciting time for Libraries and Arts on the Kāpiti Coast. Here are just some of the events brought to you by your Libraries and Arts team:

2012 Kāpiti Arts Trail — More than 250 artists and artisans were represented at the 2012 Kāpiti Arts Trail at the weekend. A huge range of arts and artisans’ works were displayed at sites from Ōtaki to Paekākāriki.

This was the 12^thannual Kāpiti Arts Trail, which has grown to become one of the most significant free public events on the Coast.

at www.kāpiticoast.govt.nz/artstrail READ MORE

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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.