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Perspective of reporter Haas on Pousima Afeaki
TONGA-NEW ZEALAND 1870-1950
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Pacific Citizens:
Lifting our game
 
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Coping with the depression
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Gifting fish in Ha’apai
Export bananas to NZ through the Produce board
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Expanding secondary education options
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Andrew Afeaki arrives for education in NZ
Early Tongans at Victoria University of Wellington
King Dick, the British and Tonga
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Maori and Tongan leaders contact
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Previous generation also in Parliament
Leader of the opposition, Pousima Afeaki
Working through government marketing then and private sector now
Son's perspective on a giant of a man Pousima Afeaki
Andrew Afeaki’ s hopes for his time
 
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Lifiting our game - 2003
 

 



  

Social Studies Level 4, Resources and economic activities:

TONGA NEW ZEALAND 1950

 

HOW AND WHY PEOPLE VIEW AND USE RESOURCES DIFFERENTLY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS

Working through government marketing then and private sector now

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Andrew Afeaki says:
The contrast (between first born, Sima Afeaki’s economic contribution and Sima’s grandfather Pousima in working the land of Tonga) is my father tried to work through the institutions created by Government – the Copra Board, and the Produce board and its people. He of course did that work out on the field that others did not see fit to do, and that is to organize people to do the actual planting and production. Pousima’s grandson Sima and I are taking a different tack. We are doing those things ourselves, rather than depending on the institutions of government. We feel that we have both the knowledge and the management capability and the limited resources to do it ourselves.

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Source: Anthony Haas personal collection. Photo by Marti Friedlander, 1978.

Some Tongans concentrate their attention on the subsistence economy, others on the simple cash economy, for some the government is an essential source of support across much of their lives - and yet others operate with confidence in the international world of business.

 

 
   
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