The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 55 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

Winds around a low pressure system in the southern hemisphere, flow clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Which southern African country is the subject of the film A United Kingdom?

Name the famous whistle blower who has had her prison sentence recently commuted by President Obama.

Who has the highest test cricket average: Kane Williamson, Martin Crowe or Ross Taylor?

On the main page of a NZ passport, how is the name of the country written?

Which historic figure tells the story in Hilary Mantel’s books Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies?

Which romantic poet wrote a sonnet with the opening line An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King?

What is unusual about a Manx cat?

What is the name of Carole King’s most famous music album?

Name the six states that make up the American region of New England.

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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.