The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 67 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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The answers to Quiz 66 can be found at the bottom.

Who was William Boyd’s most famous film character?

What is the three letter code for Los Angeles airport?

Species of sharks pre-dated the dinosaurs. True or false?

Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is president of which country?

San Francisco’s Summer of Love occurred in 1966, 1967, 1968 or 1969?

What type of films did the late Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki specialize in?

Name the four American states which start with New.

What natural disaster occurred in the Edgecumbe area in 1978?

Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad recently won which prestigious book award?

In what sport does bulldogging feature?

(Quiz 66 answers: Chicago / chocolate / Paul / Museum of Modern Art / Helen Mirren / 18 / Golden Gate Bridge /a large brown bear /Press Secretary / Waikato)

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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.