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NZ Outlines Political Steps For Cook Is.

he 25,000 people of the Cook Niue Islands would be self erning within three years, New land promised the United Nations December.

IE New Zealand delegate to the Trusteeship Committee, Mr. H.

Roberts, said that the steps to ■determination had been worked by New Zealand in consultation i the islanders and had been nimously approved by the islands’

Matures.

Ir. Roberts’s speech followed isations by the Burmese delegate 'in Maung, that New Zealand was mnor colonial Power” which had “ practically nothing to increase individual capacity of the Pacific ids she administered, tr. Roberts said that in 1963, zutive Councils would operate, se membership, apart from the dent Commissioner would be •en by the Legislative Assemblies.

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Commissioner Withdraws hen. in 1964, the Resident Com loner and the remaining official ibers would be withdrawn from i Legislative Assembly and :utive Council. fhe latter will then become fully fed cabinets, responsible to each mbly for the administration and I government of the territory,” laid. le New Zealand delegate con ;d: “When the constitutional :ture has thus been completed, nil be for the people of each tory to decide their future, he problems of administration 3 small a group are made much ; difficult by the inescapable and nportant facts of South Pacific raphy,” Mr. Roberts added.

'he islands are scattered over a on square miles of ocean. This tes its customs and often its very tal outlook, bounded by the reef h rings each island, o overcome this isolation is aps the greatest task facing an

mistering authority.”