The KIN Mid-Week Quiz 92 – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

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Who ran the first sub four minute mile?

Edmonton is the capital of which Canadian province?

American Senators are elected every 2, 4 or 6 years?

In which famous book was the phrase some are more equal than others first used?

What disaster occurred in Ireland in the middle of the 19^th century?

Who wrote the music and the lyrics of the song Hallelujah?

What are the elements argon, helium, neon, krypton, xenon and radon collectively known as?

Why has the Sanoma Valley been in the news lately?

What are Maus 1 and Maus II?

What does the Latin phrase ipso facto mean?

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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.