Polynesian Engineer
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, May 10. After 14 years’ education and training in New Zealand, Mr Papamama Pokino will return to his home in the Cook Islands next month as a qualified civil engineer. He graduated from Canterbury University this year with a bachelor of engineering degree, and he believes he is the first Polynesian to do so.
He is now living in Auckland working as an engineer for the Auckland City Council before he returns to the Cook Islands next month. Mr Pokino came to New Zealand in 1951 under an Island Territories scholarship and attended Wellington College until 1956. He spent two years at Victoria University getting his engineering intermediate and then went to Canterbury to do his degree. During his university career he married and will return to the Cook Islands with four children, to work for the Government as a civil engineer.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30747, 11 May 1965, Page 3
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149Polynesian Engineer Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30747, 11 May 1965, Page 3
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