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Kōrero: South Pacific economic relations

Tokelauans arrive in New Zealand, 1966

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Tokelauans arrive in New Zealand, 1966

These young women from the Tokelau islands are arriving in New Zealand in 1966 to work at church institutions. Their small islands became New Zealand possessions in the early 20th century, and in 1948 the people became New Zealand citizens with a right of free entry. Tokelauans began to migrate to New Zealand in the 1960s, when their islands could no longer support their population.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Politics-Immigration-03

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Geoff Bertram, South Pacific economic relations – Pacific neighbours, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24238/tokelauans-arrive-in-new-zealand-1966 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Bertram, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.