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Teanau Tuiono: WWI helped define how Pacific people view themselves 19 Apr, 2021 03:51 AM 3 minutes to read Green list MP Teanau Tuiono (right) with Michel Tuffery who designed the Pacific Islands Memorial. Manawatu Guardian OPINION: I joined with other members of the Cook Islands community at the opening of Te Reo Hotunui o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in Wellington last month. The Pacific Islands Memorial represents New Zealand's enduring friendship with the Pacific Islands and the service of Pacific Islanders in support of New Zealand in the two world wars as well as later conflicts. The Pacific Is...

THE DETAIL/RNZ The Detail looks at the struggle to rewrite NZ's war history in the Pacific to include the coastwatchers' stories and their dangerous and lonely work. A memorial commemorating New Zealand’s relationship to the Pacific Islands, and Pacific war service, is to be unveiled at an upcoming ceremony. During World War I, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company – who were the first Kiwis to reach the Western Front – completed two vast quarry networks underneath the city of Arras, in northern France. Post-WWII the tunnels were closed, but sometime after they were rediscovered in 1990, ...