The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 85 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 6.

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

What does the initials UNESCO, stand for?

Rottnest Island is off the coast of which Australian state?

Mace is the flesh that surrounds the nut producing which spice?

In which century was the Magna Carta signed?

Which two British singers composed Money for Nothin’?

Name the five leaders of the Labour Party since Helen Clark departed.

What is the French phrase for economic development that is largely unregulated?

Loess soil develops from material which is deposited by winds, glaciers or rivers?

In 1968 Franco Zeffirelli directed a film based on which Shakespearean play?

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.