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Radio New Zealand programme : Untold Pacific History.
Episode 2: White Man's Law (Niue) | Untold Pacific History

Available as both audio podcast and short documentary.
Podcast audio: 40 minutes.
Video: 20 minutes.

What led Commissioner Larsen, the New Zealand administrator of Niue in the 1950s, to be murdered in his bed by three locals hell-bent on justice and revenge?

In an extraordinary story of the trauma suffered by indigenous people at the hands of an alleged tyrant, a dramatic chapter in NZ and Niuean history is unravelled.

Niuean family members, politicians and historians give their perspectives on the little-known New Zealand colonial history of the ‘realm nation’ of Niue.