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Kōrero: Cook Islanders

Taro and green bananas

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Taro and green bananas

Early migrants in Auckland and Wellington could buy familiar foodstuffs such as taro, coconuts, kūmara, green bananas and mangoes. A lot of food also arrived directly from relatives back home. As they spent more time in New Zealand, Cook Islanders began to incorporate more European food in their diet.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Margaret Lovell-Smith

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Carl Walrond, Cook Islanders – Settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/858/taro-and-green-bananas (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.