Cook Islands
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Nine Against The Cook Islands Government
Judging from reports pub hlished in the “Cook Islands News” issued by the Cook Islands Government, the Cook Islands Premier, Mr. Albert Henry, seems never to have said—as the Leader of the New Zealand Labour Opposition alleged in Parliament in August—that there was a conspiracy against his government.
But he did say, in a radio broadcast on May 20, that there were people in the community who had “not stopped at doing everything they could to under mine the Government, and the whole political stability of our country”.
On the previous day, at a public meeting which he ad dressed as head of the Cook Islands Party, not as Premier, Mr. Henry said that there were some people in the community who were against his govern ment and who wanted to “cause trouble”.
“There are nine of them / know about, only nine,” he said.
“But we have many European friends who are working for us and who are faithful friends.”