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Social Studies Level 6 Social Organisation:
TONGA NEW ZEALAND 1950
HOW AND WHY PEOPLE ORGANISE THEMSELVES TO REVIEW SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS
IN SOCIETY
Respecting commoners
DecisionMaker sound:
Click here to listen to this oral archive
Andrew Afeaki says:
My father spent years advocating that Tonga be given other opportunities
for the people to earn a living. He ended up organising people in Ha’apai
to plant bananas, and agitating for ships to go in there. The ships visited
Ha’apai, brought the banans to Tongatapu, and put them on the normal
export ships from here. And he was hooning around Ha’apai with his
helpers doing that voluntarily. Then they’d get on the boat and
make sure the bananas got to Tonga in time to be taken to New Zealand.
That’s the sort of things he did.
Source: Anthony Haas personal collection
Some boats arrive with about as much certainty as the rainbow - stimulating Tongans to work for shipping services that can link producers reliably to markets.
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