At the same time, the NZ Administration had a development plan based on agriculture. There was no tourism then. There's some now and also some signs of agricultural renewal now that development is in Niuean hands. But this is before the time of my story.
I'm reminded of Niue by our Pacific Reset programme, that deals with aid and makes no mention of agricultural exports, and recent NZ concessions to Vanuatu to import —wait for it—50 tonnes of taro and cassava. They had been lobbying us for years to take some imports. But all that's another story. Back to Niue.
