During the economic depression in the 1930s, and throughout the 1940s, young single Cook Island women such as Christine Gideon (pictured here with her great-granddaughter Rosemary and grandson Jordan) arrived under a scheme that contracted domestic staff for wealthy New Zealand families. They lived and worked in various places including Auckland, Gisborne, Hastings, Pōrangahau, Martinborough and Rotorua.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
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EP/1991/0443/16a
Photograph by Ray Pigney
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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