Paraparaumu Beach School Fair A Winner! – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Great day for the school

Photo essay by Ian Linning

It was a great to see big crowds at the fair.

And great selection of ‘money sinks’ for the Mums and Dads!

Great enjoyment for the children, not forgetting the eats!

A huge range of “bouncy” items, castles, big slides and a stick yourself to the wall!

Vintage fire engine rides, real fire engines and a Military fit obstacle course, plus the ukulele orchestra.

A fun time for all attending, and a fair injection of welcome capital for the school.

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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.