Issue 179 July 2020 To submit items contact: IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY ON THE [email protected] VILLAGE EMAIL LIST AND WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE NOT JUST THE REGISTER, BUT ALSO UPDATES ON LOCAL ISSUES, DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, PLEASE CONTACT Inside this issue: THE PARISH CLERK: [email protected] HIPANGO UPDATED 2 200 CLUB RESULTS 3 Message from the Parish Council WASTE CALENDAR The Parish Council will be holding its been a number of exciting sightings in BRAINTEASERS 4 next meeting, via Zoom, on Monday 20 and around the Brook, including otters, July, 8pm. All are welcome to join the brown trout and water voles and again LADDERADS ETC 5 meeting but you will need to let the the Parish Council thanks all of you who Parish Clerk have your details a week in give of your time to maintain and 6 advance so that the invitation can be improve these natural assets within the Photographic Club sent through to you. village. SAINT OF THE MONTH 7 There is some excellent news for the The future of Wantage Hospital seems ST ANDREW’S UPDATE village from Oxfordshire County Council, all the more important now given the AUGUST PHOTO INFO who have confirmed that they are able pressure on the NHS, and the OX12 8 to grant fund the planned road Group are continuing to lobby for its MESSAGE FROM MP improvements within the village. These reopening. We will keep you up to date RG&VH UPDATE include better signage at the top of with developments via the Register. GARDENING CLUB 9 Court Hill and Windmill Hill, repainted We are now able to progress the work white lines etc. etc. Details of the work LETCOMBE BROOK NEWS 10 schedule will be shared via the Village approved for the Burial Ground and further quotes from contractors are Email as soon as it is known, but please BOOK BUFFS QUIZZES 11 be mindful that the work may mean being sought ready for a final decision. If you wish to see the plans they are some road closures while it is CONSERVATION GROUP 12 undertaken. available via the Parish Clerk, or indeed on line via the Vale of the White Horse NATURE RESERVE With the relaxation in Covid-19 Planning Portal. FILM CLUB 13 distancing measures it is easy to think GREYHOUND NEWS that all is over, it is not, so please The waste recycling site at Stamford is continue to keep your distance. We now open and operating within the new SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB have had no cases of Covid-19 within Covid-19 Guidelines and you are JULY ROAD CLOSURES 14 our community so far, and we hope by encouraged to take your waste here remaining cautious and vigilant, we can rather than light bonfires within the (PAGES 14 - 16) village. Recently lit bonfires have keep it that way. The Parish Council VILLAGE HALL INFO 17 wishes to sincerely thank all of you who caused considerable nuisance to CONTACTS are supporting and continue to support neighbours, so please be mindful of this our community through these difficult impact. times. With the weather set to continue fair for The work to the Thames Water Pipeline the foreseeable future, we hope you can project has been completed and continue to enjoy the beauty and The Register is also available elsewhere in the Register you will find tranquillity of the Parish and remain well. to view, along with an update outlining the possible much more information, implications for the Brook and its Jeanne Lapsley on the village Website: subsidiaries as they settle into a Chairman www.letcomberegispc.org naturally regulated flow. There have Letcombe Regis Parish Council Issue 179 Not King George Hipango With Thanks to Vivi McCoubrey for this update. One of the most enjoyable the Pai Marire movement. his aptitude to learn.” It features of the new look The name means “Good must indeed have seemed Register is the reproduction and Peaceful”, a rather amazing to 19th century of articles from the past ironic name for an extremist minds that a Maori was which shed a fascinating and very militant Maori cult. capable of academic light on Letcombe’s history. It is simplistic to see the study. (One wonders how Last month’s reprint of an wars that followed as a amazed they would have article by Ivor Marsh was struggle between the Maori been had they known that about the memorial obelisk and the pakeha (white another Maori from in St Andrew’s churchyard. Europeans.) There was Whanganui, Sir Jerry I’m glad that the Editor great division between the Mateparae, was to become th Hoani Wiremu included it on the 149 various Maori iwi (tribes) New Zealand’s twentieth Hipango (right), anniversary of Hipango’s and Hoani Wiremu’s Governor General in death but I couldn’t help but people, Ngati Tumango, 2011.) Today Maori with Richard Taylor notice that the article con- were pro-government. In heritage is a major part of (centre) and his son tains several inaccuracies February 1865, he was New Zealand’s culture – Basil (left), and, although it was written killed in a battle against and not just the All Blacks only 31 years ago, it’s terri- warriors of the Pai Marire. performing the haka. Te England, 1855 bly dated in terms of the Buried with full military Reo (the language) and attitudes it conveys and the honours, the Governor kapa haka (performing patronising language it General, Governor Grey, arts) feature strongly in the uses. With all due respect, even attended his funeral. national school curriculum. I’d like to offer a revised version. Richard Taylor was one of As well as being a gifted the most influential sportsman, Hori was a Let’s start by getting his missionaries of the time. A talented artist and one of name right: he certainly good man with strongly his drawings, of two dogs wasn’t King George held beliefs, although some called Dash and Fan Hipango, he wasn’t even of his words make for un- (probably Richard Taylor’s George King Hipango, he comfortable reading today: dogs) is held in the was Hori Kingi Hipango, 'colonization, properly con- National Library of New and he came from ducted, is the natural ad- Zealand in Wellington. Whanganui on the west junct to Christianity, in coast of the North Island. civilizing aboriginal races'. Revd Taylor’s plan for Hori His father was Hoani He decided to give Hoani was that he should Wiremu Hipango. The mid Wiremu’s son, Hori Kingi, become ordained but it nineteenth century was a an English education. He became obvious that he Photo from time of great missionary probably thought he was had no desire to become a Alexander Turnbull zeal and it was the custom doing the right thing by the missionary. To Taylor’s Library. to give Christian converts son of his assistant but one credit, he made plans for an English name when they has to question the wisdom National Library of NZ. the lad to return home. were baptised. So Hoani of taking a lad of 17, whose Sadly, before this could Wiremu became “John father has just been killed, happen, he became ill William”. and sending him to the oth- while staying with the Rev er side of the world to an Lanfear and his family at He seems to have been a English boarding school. the vicarage in Letcombe man of exceptional wisdom Homesick and surrounded Regis. He died a few days and great mana (prestige, by a foreign culture, Hori later and is buried in St status) and he was recruit- Kingi ran away or, in the Andrew’s churchyard. Ivor ed by the Revd Richard cringe-making words of Ivor Marsh says, “he will Taylor as his assistant and Marsh, “our little Maori chief always be a saint in even accompanied Taylor fled.” Letcombe Regis.” He to England in 1855 where wasn’t a saint. He was a he was received by Queen Hori was persuaded to young lad, only 19 when Victoria. (He is reported to return to school, settled he died, and he was far have been shocked by the down and excelled aca- from home. Next time you lewd and uncivilised demically, as well as being pass his memorial obelisk, behaviour he observed in an outstanding athlete and spare him a thought. London.) kind to the younger boys. 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