Things could have been very different for Anglo-centric New Zealand. We raise a defiant sesame-crusted baguette and then a styrofoam cup of pinot noir in a toast to Captain Jean Langlois whose vision ...

It is a semi-colony of New Zealand with limited self-government ... up as indentured labourers in the phosphate mine on the French Polynesian island of Makatea—a scheme backed by the NZ government.

Charles Wea, a spokesman for international relations in the President's Office, confirmed the deaths to the Pacific News Desk of Radio New Zealand ... in the French colony, told a news conference ...