Excerpts from
"Stories from Palmerston" - the book about William Marsters and Palmerston
Island
WILLIAM
RICHARD MARSTERS
aka RICHARD MASTERS (b.1831, d.1899)
From Walcote,
Leicestershire, England
to Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
(Hard copy) US$70.00 plus
US$5.00 postage
Contents of
"Land Tenure in
a Test Tube"
by Professor Ron
Crocombe
Contents of "Sisters in the Sun" by Helm & Percival
Contents of "On the Wind of a
Dream"
by Commander Victor Clark
Front Cover - Stories of Palmerston Back Cover - Stories of Palmerston
Mama's Story
In 1986, Kirsten Hilyard interviewed her grandmother Jane Tere Marsters-Kokaua as a school assignment. Her subject was the Big Hurricane in about 1936 that her grandmother had often spoken of. In this story she describes how the islanders survived this major disaster.
Map of Palmerston Island drawn by Liam Hilyard, great (x4)-grandson of William Richard Marsters
