The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 54 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

What was the nationality of George Simenon, the author of the Maigret detective stories?

Which Christian group receives guidance from the light within?

In which part of New Zealand is the coastal town of Clifton?

Where on the body would you find the illiotibial band?

Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State nomination for the Trump administration, has never held a political appointment or been in the military. True of False?

It’s derived from the French game of boules. What is it called in New Zealand?

What are mountaineers doing when they rappel?

Which BBC television series was the predecessor of Softly Softly?

Name the two large rivers which flow through Mesopotamia.

Which country was the main topic for discussion at the 1938 Munich Conference?

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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).

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.