The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 61 Answers – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Answers below.

Myeloma affects which part of the body? (the bones)

In his famous song, how many hours was Gene Pitney from Tulsa? (24)

Breitbart is a German wine, a cleaning product or a news service? (a news service)

What is a cordon sanitaire? (an area around a zone that prevents people from coming or going)

Jan Ove Waldner is one of the greatest players of all time in which sport? (table tennis)

What is the more common name for sodium fluroacetate? (1080)

Which Romantic poet penned the line A thing of beauty is a joy forever? (John Keats)

Name the two countries which fought a naval battle off the south coast of Korea in 1905. (Russia and Japan)

Which two Labour Party leaders who have held the seat of Mt Albert? (Helen Clark and David Shearer)

What is known as the fourth estate? ( the press)

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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.