The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 103 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 4.

The first challenge of 2018.

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

Answers on Sunday.

Which pop group composed a song which includes the line: Where the streets have no name?

In which decade did the first Ashes test between Australia and England take place: the 1880s, 1890s or 1900s?

Which Australian town is farthest to the east?

Tropical rainforests have a lush ground cover. True or false?

Who was The Greatest Showman?

Which imperial power suffered a humiliating defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?

Which two nations continued with major commercial whaling operations despite a moratorium on such activity?

Who wrote Madam Bovary?

In which country is kimchi a staple food?

Where on the body do you find the gluteus maximus muscles?

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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.