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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Biography==<br />
Pa Maretu was [[adopted]] by Obura (born ca. 1836), who was the son of Maretu I (1802-80), one of the first Christian converts (in 1823) on Rarotonga, the main island in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. Obura was a missionary and the husband of High Chief Pa Te Upoko Ariki Tini. They had no children and so [[adopted]] Maretu, who was the son of a Rarotongan woman and a French man. <br />
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Pa Maretu succeeded his mother to the title of high chief of Takitimu in the mid-1890s. Possibly because of his mixed ancestry, he was the only native high chief respected by both the Rarotongans and the [[New Zealand]] colonial administrator, W.E. Gudgeon. In 1902 he was appointed an associate judge and advisor on native customs to the Rarotongan Land Titles Court. <br />
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He died sometime before 1908.<br />
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==References==<br />
Maretu. Cannibals and Converts: Radical Change in the Cook Islands, translated, annotated and edited by Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe. (Suva: University of the South Pacific Institute of Pacific Studies, 1983)<br />
Gilson, Richard. The Cook Islands, 1820-1950, edited by Ron Crocombe. (Wellington: Victoria University Press; Suva: University of the South Pacific Institute of Pacific Studies, 1980)<br />
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