Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1993Vol. 63, No. 7

Pioneering

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Cook Islands

Pioneering woman

The grave of a New Zealand woman who killed herself 75 years ago after being condemned as “wicked” is to be restored in Rarotonga by a woman who now considers her a good role model. Etti Rout, who went to Europe during WWI, was notorious for handing out condoms to soldiers so they could have safe sex. Shunned by society after the war, she went to the Cook Islands and eventually committed suicide by taking

quinine.

Now New Zealander Jill Caughley has found the grave and wants to tidy it up and restore it. She believes it is a fitting project to honour the 100th anniversary of New Zealand women winning universal franchise.

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