We commemorated Peace Day on the 18th at our
Peace School, Takitumu Primary School, with the
Students and our school Peace Ambassadors
presenting the programme of song and dance.
Other schools throughout the Cook Islands prepared
their own programmes. On the small island of Mitiaro
the school invited the “over 70’s” to a feast and to
participate with the students in various activities thus
linking two generations and acknowledging the
older generation and all they have given.
Churches incorporated the theme of peace into their
Services.
Around the beginning of 1940’s, our food and life essentials became scarce, because
they were sent to military and we were forced to be patient for the tense social
condition. At night it was dark in the city as well as at home by military control.
Any war news of the battlefield were controlled and we were told only the Japanese
Navy, Army and Air Force soldiers were bravely fighting. Later we gradually learned
of their defeat of and loss of many battleships and aircraft.
Talofa, Maiem, Ni sa bula, Namaskar, Aloha, Selamat malam, Konnichiwa, An nyong, Apa kabar, Haere mai, Fakalofa atu, Namo erea, Salam, Mabuhay, Nihau ma, Sa wad dee kha, Malo E Laumalie, Xin chao, Velkommen, Hello, Zdravstvujtye, Kia Orana,
