- CITC Rarotonga / Hodder & Stoughton
- 1991 First Edition
- Hard cover, large format, black boards with dust jacket, 320 pages, Illustrated, indexed
- Condition: Some fading to d/j and minor d/dj repair
Commisioned by Cook Islands Trading Corporation in celebration of its 100th anniversary
What an odd assortment of characters New Zealand sent to administer the Cook Islands during 75 years of colonial rule. The power-drunk and the benevolent, dull bureaucrats and bewildered misfits - long-suffering Cook Islanders saw them all. This book raises questions of particular interest to students of New Zealand history. Sixty years after Waitangi how was the the annexation document prepared and translated? Was it trick or treaty? What was the fate of 500 soldiers recruited for World War One? For a critical quarter-century three famous New Zealand Maori politician-knights were in charge of Cook Islands affairs. How well did they handle their portfolios? What was the response of the first Labour government to the flogging of adults for breaches of curfew - or to the rise of the nationalist movement.
Superbly illustrated with black /white historical photographs and illustrated end papers with Corrigenda mounted at rear
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