Albert Henry Meeting

Mana (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 11, 24 November 1977, Page 7

Albert Henry Meeting

Thursday of last week, November 17 a meeting was called for the people of the Cook Islands now residents of New Zealand especially the Auckland settlement. It was held at the PICC Church hall at Edinburgh St off Karangahape Road in Newton. The main guest speaker was Sir Albert Henry, who is accompanied by Mama and two daughters. It was a great meeting although the number did not exceed a hundred mark. The talk was interesting, the questions asked were provocative but the feasting afterwards calmed everything down. Some of the important points mentioned were the fact that there is now a tie between Hawaii and Rarotonga by plane. This is to be celebrated yearly from 4 to 11 June. It is to mark the beginning of this route between the two places. There will be a team of delegation and performers going to Hawaii each year and a festival week will be celebrated for this occasion. Secondly he is able to borrow a sum of sl.sm from the National Bank of New Zealand to be used dor housing loans

by people of the Cook Islande. From the questioning session it is established that

the main cause for people of the Cook Islands not being allowed to vote for the Cook Island elections while here in New Zealand is that made by the people whose responsibility it was to write up the Cook Island constitution (supposedly to be the Europeans involved for having clauses after clauses which the shadow government prior to self government did not fully understand because it was mainly assumed by the Europeans that they did and left it there). If any Cook Islanders want to cast their votes there is nothing stopping them from doing it in the Cook Islands.