Your Chance to Spout Your Views At KCDC Sessions – Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Sunday 19th April

The Kapiti Water Action Group (KWAG) is alerting anyone interested in Kapiti’s continuing water crisis to make their views crystal clear at Council hearings on the Long Term Community Plan.

KWAG suggests local people turn the hose on the Council at any of the following meetings:
Tuesday 21 April – 10am – 12noon – Raumati Beach @ Garden Deli Cafe in the village
– 1pm – 3pm – Paraparaumu Beach @ 180 degrees Cafe on waterfront

Friday 24 April – 10am – 12noon – Paraparaumu @ Novella Cafe, back of Council Bldgs, Iver Trask Place.

Saturday 2 May – 10am – 12noon – Otaki @ seating area adjacent to Library or if wet, in the supper room.
– 1pm – 2pm – Te Horo @ Te Horo Cafe in Hyde Park Complex, SH1.

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.