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… It describes the outbreak of war on the Pacific island of Mangaia after a Tahitian missionary arrives proclaiming a … 1948 stage drama The a xe , based on a historic incident in Mangaia in the Cook Islands, provided an allegory of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Plays and playwrights
… Rarotonga’s Atiu island and Ahuahu (an early name for Mangaia) are repeated in New Zealand’s Atiu and Ahuahu in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… and archaeology suggest that the Society Islands, or Mangaia in the Cook Islands, may have been the source of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia
… Māhia Peninsula on the East Coast, and with immigrants from Mangaia in the Cook Islands. Some Māori freezing workers …
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Part of story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement
… to the government on the water supplies on the islands of Mangaia, Rarotonga, Ātiu and Mauke. After the latter trip he …
Type: Biography
… poetic tragedy, The axe , set on the Pacific island of Mangaia, had been performed in 1948 and 1953, and on radio …
Type: Biography