Kōrero: Cook Islanders

Returned soldiers at Avarua, 1926

Returned soldiers at Avarua, 1926

New Zealand Governor-General Charles Fergusson and his entourage (replete with pith helmets) inspect First World War veterans (wearing straw boaters) at Avarua, Rarotonga’s main settlement. Going overseas, even if it was for war, exposed Cook Islanders to a much wider world and planted the seeds of restlessness.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-7985-11

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Carl Walrond, 'Cook Islanders - Migration', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/851/returned-soldiers-at-avarua-1926 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 8 Feb 2005, updated 1 Mar 2015