Situation Confus[?]
p. 156 · Read in the full issue
“fTTHE Cook Islanders don’t A a share in our Govern] Representation in our P ment is so far from their r that, in more than a week of cussions in Rarotonga and Aiti it was hardly ever raised as a ject of serious debate.”
The day that that appeared i Auckland newspaper, in one series of articles by a special c spondent who had accompi there the recent Parliamei commission of inquiry, it was nounced from the House of R sentatives in Wellington thj petition had just been received 180 Cook Islanders asking th Maori representative be appo to New Zealand’s Parliamen directly represent the Islands.