Our last colony

I see in the that the PM is off to visit Tokelau, the last colony of the former powerful Empire 🙂

I recall the last PM, David Lange, who visited it, as this happened when I was at school, and one of my classmates went along as his father (who worked for ) had been appointed the Civil Service Administrator. The only access was by way of long boat trip so he got to know Lange quite well spending several days on a baot with him.

The return boat was delayed, so Paul was late getting back to school. He took great delight though in giving the teacher a hand written note from Minister David Lange asking Paul to be excused for being late for school as he had been assisting the Prime Minister. The teacher was suitably impressed!