Item 33 - Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition 1982. Correspondence, February - March 1983.

Includes the following essays with cover notes: Susan Seldon, “The partition of the Western Pacific in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was caused by the failure of the Islanders’ political systems to accommodate intrusion by Europeans. Is this an adequate explanation for the extension of colonial rule in the region, beginning with British annexation of Fiji?”, 20pp ; Vijendra Lal (University of the South Pacific), “Everard Im Thurn and his Reforms in Fiji’s Land Policy 1904-10”, 15pp (2 copies) ; Raphael ToPagur, “The Police association of Papua New Guinea”, 20pp ; Sue McLachlan (University of Auckland), “Savage Island or Savage History? An interpretation of Early European Contact with Niue”, 25pp, and appendices.