Unique Opportunity to Hear Master Guitarist – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Giuseppe Petrella (Pino) in Raumati

Pino is a world renowned classical guitarist. He is on a two week trip to New Zealand and is currently staying with friends in Raumati.

Tonight – Monday July 10 at 7.15 – he is performing at the Kapiti Uniting Parish Church, in Raumati Beach.

The concert will be raising money for the new Performing Art Centre, and entry is by folding koha.

This is a wonderful chance to hear a master musician who specialises in Baroque music.

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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.