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27 Apr 2009, 3:12 pm / Happy
 Timi Kara (also known as James Carroll) served twice as acting Prime Minister - in 1909 and 1911. The Prime Minister was from a very large family , traditionally raised in Maori way. The importance of large family has always been seen in Maori and Kiwi Culture, Timi Kara, also refered to as James Carroll was one of eight children, his mother was a notable Chieftainess, Tapuke, who was descended from a long noble line of ancestors of the Ngati-Kahungunu Iwi. Father was said to be Joeseph Carroll of Irish descent; now a Kiwi of Aotearoa. Timi Kara was one of many Maori in Politics, some pushing separate government,and some pushing Maori Administration within new social political systems that supported regional cooperation, just one of the growing oppositions to new political systems, and camapigning for separatization was the Hauhau movement which was then rising, in 1867 one of the feared HauHau Maori movements had spread and become so dangerous that schooling was impossible in the area. which was a Maori reorganized religious Military Movement from a previous campaign that took the area. Timi Kara was one who worked within new growing political systems, In 1892 he was appointed to Cabinet as representative of the Maori affairs and opposed the Maori Land Court if granted Maori land title to individuals rather than Iwi or Hapu. This became known as the Rees–Carroll Commission
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