Voters at Gwee'abe in east Kwaio during the Malaita Council elections, 1962
1962
Voters at Gwee'abe in Sinalagu, east Kwaio, during elections for the Malaita Council. The Council was the administration's answer to Maasina Rule, the Malaitan self government movement suppressed in the late 1940s.
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