The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 87 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

See question 10. (Credit Bill Leek)

The latest challenge.

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

Answers on Sunday.

What in the middle category on forest fire danger signs in New Zealand?

In which sport are games started with a Tip Off?

Metal movable type in printing was first developed in China, Korea or Germany?

Who wrote the art history book The Shock of the New?

New Zealand is located where two tectonic plates interact. True or false?

Which major battle on the western front was raging exactly 100 years ago?

In which European city is there an avenue which in English means Under the Linden Trees?

Regina is the capital of which Canadian province?

Which southern African state was the major setting for the film A United Kingdom?

In Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection?

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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.