New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands has died
New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands has died
9 December 2019
52 year old Tessa Temata recently returned to New Zealand for medical treatment.
She was the first High Commissioner of Cook Islands descent, and our first female High Commissioner of Pacific ancestry posted to the Pacific.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says she will be hugely missed.
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