The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 10 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest in the series.

Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!

Answers on Sunday.

Which award winning film featured the Celine Dion hit My Heart Will Go On?

In Biblical Palestine what was the Potters Field used for?

The Germans called the city Danzig. What is the Polish name?

Who were Bill Massey’s Tourists?

What is the topic of New Zealander Adrian Kinnaird’s book From Earth’s End?

Which American city has a football team called The Dolphins?

Who started the Reformation by nailing some principles on a church door?

What part do trees play in the carbon cycle?

Which two countries are providing teams in Super Rugby this year for the first time?

What is the meaning of the Latin phrase quid pro quo?

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti’s proposed Te Uruhi Gateway at Paraparaumu Beach has been voted through after a day-long debate which include a haka in the District Council chamber and angry protests.

The Kapiti council faced a government deadline for $4.45 million project, with half to come from the Covid Recovery fund.

Vote went 7-4

It wasn’t until after 5.30 pm when the councillors and mayor voted 7-4 to give the go-ahead. The four anti votes came from councillors Jocelyn Prvanov, Gwynn Compton , Martin Halliday and Bernie Randall.

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.